The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
1h 33min
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.
Storyline
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
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Harry Carey
Commandant
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Paul Fix
David Herold
Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln
Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
Etta McDaniel
Aunt Rosabelle
J.M. Kerrigan
Judge Maiben
Arthur Loft
Carpet Bagger
Paul McVey
General Hunter
Maurice Murphy
Orderly
Matthew Beard
Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Stanley Blystone
Stanley Bordagaray
Whitney Bourne
Lester Dorr
George A. Atzerodt
Robert Dudley
Druggist at Trial
Jan Duggan
Actress at Ford's Theatre
Earl Eby
Usher
Dick Elliott
Actor at Ford's Theatre
Bess Flowers
Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box
Bud Geary
Sergeant
Melvin J. Gibby
Lewis Payne
Charles Haefeli
Prisoner
Robert Homans
Sergeant
John Lester Johnson
Black Soldier at Prison
Beulah Hall Jones
Blanche
Paul Kruger
Soldier
Duke R. Lee
Sergeant
Wilfred Lucas
Testifying Colonel
Murdock MacQuarrie
Edman Spangler
James A. Marcus
Blacksmith
Eric Mayne
Court-Martial Participant
Paul McAllister
Doctor
Merrill McCormick
Commandant's Aide
J.P. McGowan
Ship's Captain
Arthur Millett
Wedgwood Nowell
Court-Martial Member
Robert Parrish
Vester Pegg
Soldier
Jack Pennick
Corporal
George H. Reed
Black Man Giving Booth Directions
Paul Stanton
Agitating Orator
Tom Steele
Trooper
Harry Strang
Ship's Mate
Cyril Thornton
Michael O'Laughlin
Ray Turner
Black Soldier at Prison
Blue Washington
Black Soldier at Prison
Charles West
Washington (DC) Citizen
Cecil Weston
Mary Surratt
Lloyd Whitlock
Maj. Rathbone
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