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The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

IMDB:

6.8
The Prisoner of Shark Island

Released

2/28/1936

Duration

1h 33m

Genre

Drama, History

Country

United States of America

Cast

Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater

Overview

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.

Cast

Warner Baxter

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Warner Baxter

Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Gloria Stuart

Claude Gillingwater

Colonel Dyer

Claude Gillingwater

Arthur Byron

Mr. Erickson

Arthur Byron

O. P. Heggie

Dr. Mac Intyre

O. P. Heggie

Harry Carey

Commandant

Harry Carey

Francis Ford

Corporal O'Toole

Francis Ford

John McGuire

Lieutenant Lovett

John McGuire

Francis McDonald

John Wilkes Booth

Francis McDonald

Douglas Wood

General Ewing

Douglas Wood

John Carradine

Sergeant Rankin

John Carradine

Joyce Kay

Martha Mudd

Joyce Kay

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