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The Prisoner of Shark Island

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

6.8 NR1 hour 33 mins

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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Top Cast

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Warner Baxter

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

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Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Peggy Mudd

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Claude Gillingwater

Colonel Dyer

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Arthur Byron

Mr. Erickson

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O. P. Heggie

Dr. Mac Intyre

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Harry Carey

Commandant

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Francis Ford

Corporal O'Toole

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John McGuire

Lieutenant Lovett

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Francis McDonald

John Wilkes Booth

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Douglas Wood

General Ewing

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John Carradine

Sergeant Rankin

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Joyce Kay

Martha Mudd

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Fred Kohler Jr.

Sergeant Cooper

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Ernest Whitman

Buck

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Paul Fix

David Herold

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Frank Shannon

Mr. Holt

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Frank McGlynn Sr.

Abraham Lincoln

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Leila McIntyre

Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

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Etta McDaniel

Aunt Rosabelle

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J.M. Kerrigan

Judge Maiben

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Arthur Loft

Carpet Bagger

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Paul McVey

General Hunter

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Maurice Murphy

Orderly

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Matthew Beard

Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)