The Prisoner of Shark Island
Film193693 min6.8/10 on TMDB
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Directed by John Ford
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
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
John CarradineSergeant RankinJoyce Kay
Joyce KayMartha MuddExplore the crew
- Director
- John Ford
- Screenplay
- Nunnally Johnson
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Editor
- Jack Murray
- Director of Photography
- Bert Glennon
- Original Music Composer
- R. H. Bassett
- Original Music Composer
- Hugo Friedhofer