The Prisoner of Shark Island
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
6.8
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February 28, 1936
1h 33m
Drama
History
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After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Harry Carey
Commandant
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
John Carradine
Sergeant RankinJ
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Paul Fix
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