The Prisoner of Shark Island

    The Prisoner of Shark Island
    1936

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Warner BaxterDr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
    • Gloria StuartMrs. Peggy Mudd
    • Claude GillingwaterColonel Dyer
    • Arthur ByronMr. Erickson
    • O. P. HeggieDr. Mac Intyre
    • Harry CareyCommandant
    • Francis FordCorporal O'Toole
    • John McGuireLieutenant Lovett
    • Francis McDonaldJohn Wilkes Booth
    • Douglas WoodGeneral Ewing

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