The Prisoner of Shark Island

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

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

Gloria Stuart

Claude Gillingwater

Arthur Byron

O. P. Heggie

Harry Carey

Francis Ford

John McGuire

Francis McDonald

Douglas Wood

John Carradine

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Joyce Kay