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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Directed by John Ford
“Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd”
Drama, History · 1h 33m
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.
Cast
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Harry Carey
Commandant
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin
J
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Crew
- Director
- John Ford
- Screenplay
- Nunnally Johnson
- Director of Photography
- Bert Glennon
- Original Music Composer
- R. H. Bassett, Hugo Friedhofer
- Editor
- Jack Murray
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Details
- Release date
- 1936-02-28
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox