
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After treating the injured leg of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a show at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd is deemed complicit in the heinous plot. Consequently, he receives a life sentence and is dispatched to the ominous Shark Island Prison.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: John Ford
Actors: Arthur Byron, Claude Gillingwater, Douglas Wood, Francis Ford, Francis McDonald, Gloria Stuart, Harry Carey, John McGuire, O. P. Heggie, Warner Baxter
Country: United States of America
Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Awards: 1 win
Duration:
1h 36minRelease: 1936
Release Date: 1936-02-28
IMDb: 7.2
TMDB: 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
FilmAffinity: 7.0