The Prisoner of Shark Island
FEB 28, 1936 · 93 MIN · DIR. JOHN FORD
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
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Crew
Screenplay
Nunnally Johnson
Director of Photography
Bert Glennon
Editor
Jack Murray
Original Music Composer
R. H. Bassett
Original Music Composer
Hugo Friedhofer
Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
