The Prisoner of Shark Island
(1936)
February 28, 1936• 1h 33m
68%
TMDB ScoreOverview
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
John Ford
Director
Top Billed Cast
WB
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
GS
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
CG
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
AB
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
OPH
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
HC
Harry Carey
Commandant
FF
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
JM
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
FM
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
DW
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
