The Prisoner of Shark Island

02/28/1936

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1hr 33min

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Drama

,History

Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Warner Baxter
  • Gloria Stuart
  • Claude Gillingwater
  • Arthur Byron
  • O. P. Heggie

    Directors

  • John Ford
  • Edward O'Fearna

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • 20th Century Fox

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

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