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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

Drama History

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

Release Date: 1936, February 28
Directors: John Ford
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: John Carradine, Francis McDonald, Fred Kohler Jr., Paul Kruger, Ray Turner, Matthew Beard, J.M. Kerrigan, Lester Dorr, Harry Strang, Blue Washington, Ernest Whitman, Bess Flowers

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.

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