The Prisoner of Shark Island

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

NR
1h 36m
1936

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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