The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · 93 min
Directed by John Ford. Written by Nunnally Johnson. Starring Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron.
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.
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