The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)1h33
Drama · History
Director John Ford (7.3 avg)
Also directed The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, and 141 more
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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Cast
Warner Baxter
Gloria Stuart
Claude Gillingwater
Arthur Byron
O. P. Heggie
Harry Carey
Francis Ford
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