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The Prisoner of Shark Island: Directed by John Ford. With Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron. The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- John Ford
- 1936-02-28
The Prisoner of Shark Island. The Prisoner of Shark Island is a 1936 American drama film loosely based on the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd, who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his controversial conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices.
Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) In The Sight Of The Holy God I Worship As Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg on the night he shot Lincoln, title character Warner Baxter is getting railroaded at trial, Douglas Wood his lawyer, Arthur Byron the prosecutor, Robert Dudley and others testifying, a grim turn in John Ford’s The Prisoner Of Shark ...
- John Ford, Ed O'fearna
- Warner Baxter
Ed M Good movie, but they take liberties with historical facts. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/08/18 Full Review Jon C Prisoner of Shark Island is an early John Ford film giving an ...
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- Warner Baxter
- John Ford
- History, Drama
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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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The Prisoner Of Shark Island. Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known Confederate sympathizer, sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger who stumbles into his home. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of conspiring to murder ...
