The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936 "Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd"

The Prisoner of Shark Island

7.2 | 1h33m | NR | en | Drama

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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7.2 | 1h33m | NR | en | Drama , History

Synopsis

Cast

Warner Baxter ,Gloria Stuart ,Claude Gillingwater

Director

William S. Darling

Producted By

20th Century Fox ,

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Cast

Warner Baxter

as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

[1975] Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? [1950] State Penitentiary [1949] The Crime Doctor's Diary [1947] The Crime Doctor's Gamble [1947] The Millerson Case [1946] Crime Doctor's Man Hunt [1946] Just Before Dawn [1945] The Crime Doctor's Warning [1945] The Crime Doctor's Courage

Gloria Stuart

as Mrs. Peggy Mudd

[2017] Titanic [2007] Chris & Don: A Love Story [2004] Land of Plenty [2001] Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man [1999] The Love Letter [1998] Universal Horror [1997] Bogart: The Untold Story [1988] Shootdown [1983] The Horror of It All

Claude Gillingwater

as Colonel Dyer

[1939] Cafe Society [1938] A Yank at Oxford [1938] There Goes My Heart [1938] Just Around the Corner [1937] Conquest [1936] The Prisoner of Shark Island [1936] Poor Little Rich Girl [1936] Counterfeit [1935] Calm Yourself