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.
Genre: History
Director: Edward O'Fearna, John Ford
Actors: Arthur Byron, Claude Gillingwater, Douglas Wood, Francis Ford, Francis McDonald, Gloria Stuart, Harry Carey, John McGuire, O. P. Heggie, Warner Baxter