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Name: The Prisoner of Shark Island
Released: 1936-2-28
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie

The Prisoner of Shark Island

NR
1h 36m
1936

89%

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A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. . Dr. Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

Nunnally Johnson

Cast:

Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie, Harry Carey

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Reviews

Cinelandia

Cinelandia Staff

A dramatic and painful film that shows us a new Warner Baxter. [Full review in Spanish]

Fact can be stranger than fiction, but occasionally fiction gets there first. [The Prisoner of Shark Island] may be accurate historically, but it still reads like a typical Hollywood scenario.

The Prisoner of Shark Island Is a production, histrionic and technical credit, to all concerned. Werner Baxter [gives] perhaps his top acting performance.

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Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)

Gus McCarthy

The picture is one that took courage to make.

Despite its somber theme, this is a forceful melodrama ; it grips the spectator, and holds his attention throughout.

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