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.
Top Billed Cast
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Featured Crew
W.D. Flick
Sound
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
Gwen Wakeling
Costume Designer
Louis Silvers
Music Director
Joseph M. Schenck
Presenter
John Ford
Director
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Jack Murray
Editor
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
William S. Darling
Art Direction
Nunnally Johnson
Associate Producer
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