The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

1936 · 93 min · Drama, History

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.

Directed by John Ford. Starring Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron and O. P. Heggie.

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