The Prisoner of Shark Island
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Cast
Warner BaxterDr. Samuel Alexander Mudd 
Gloria StuartMrs. Peggy Mudd 
Claude GillingwaterColonel Dyer 
Arthur ByronMr. Erickson 
O. P. HeggieDr. Mac Intyre 
Harry CareyCommandant 
Francis FordCorporal O'Toole 
John McGuireLieutenant Lovett 
Francis McDonaldJohn Wilkes Booth 
Douglas WoodGeneral Ewing 
John CarradineSergeant Rankin - J
Joyce KayMartha Mudd 
Fred Kohler Jr.Sergeant Cooper 
Ernest WhitmanBuck 
Paul FixDavid Herold 
Frank ShannonMr. Holt
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