The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
With Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Harry Carey, Francis Ford, John Carradine, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie
Directed by John Ford
The Prisoner of Shark Island is a 1936 American drama film that presents a dramatized life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his unanimous conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, was directed by John Ford and starred Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart.
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