The Prisoner of Shark Island
Drama
About The Prisoner of Shark Island
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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Cast & Crew
Directed by John Ford
Starring Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O. P. Heggie
Produced by 20th Century Fox