The Prisoner of Shark Island
- Released on
Drama, History
•- Runtime
- 93 mins
(53 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Warner Baxter
- Gloria Stuart
- Claude Gillingwater
- Arthur Byron
- O. P. Heggie
- Harry Carey
- Francis Ford
- John McGuire
- Francis McDonald
- Douglas Wood
- John Carradine
- Joyce Kay
- Fred Kohler Jr.
- Ernest Whitman
- Paul Fix
- Frank Shannon
- Frank McGlynn Sr.
- Leila McIntyre
- Etta McDaniel
- J.M. Kerrigan
- Arthur Loft
- Paul McVey
- Maurice Murphy
- Matthew Beard
- Frank Baker
- Stanley Blystone
- Stanley Bordagaray
- Whitney Bourne
- Lester Dorr
- Robert Dudley
- Jan Duggan
- Earl Eby
- Dick Elliott
- Bess Flowers
- Bud Geary
- Melvin J. Gibby
- Charles Haefeli
- Robert Homans
- John Lester Johnson
- Beulah Hall Jones
- Paul Kruger
- Duke R. Lee
- Wilfred Lucas
- Murdock MacQuarrie
- James A. Marcus
- Eric Mayne
- Paul McAllister
- Merrill McCormick
- J.P. McGowan
- Arthur Millett
- Wedgwood Nowell
- Robert Parrish
- Vester Pegg
- Jack Pennick
- George H. Reed
- Paul Stanton
- Tom Steele
- Harry Strang
- Cyril Thornton
- Ray Turner
- Blue Washington
- Charles West
- Cecil Weston
- Lloyd Whitlock
Director
- John Ford
Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenwriter
- Nunnally Johnson
