The Prisoner of Shark Island

Name: The Prisoner of Shark Island
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1936-02-28
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 6.798
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O. P. Heggie

February 28, 1936
Directed by
John Ford

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.