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The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936, Feb 28
1h 33m
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.
Directed by
John Ford
Etta McDaniel
Aunt Rosabelle
John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin
Paul Fix
David Herold
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Paul Stanton
Agitating Orator (uncredited)
Harry Carey
Commandant
Bess Flowers
Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box (uncredited)
J.M. Kerrigan
Judge Maiben
Lester Dorr
George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
Jack Pennick
Corporal (uncredited)
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Matthew Beard
Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Sergeant (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Boy Seeking Dr. Mudd (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Edman Spangler (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Ship's Mate (uncredited)
Ray Turner
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln
Arthur Loft
Carpet Bagger
Paul Kruger
Soldier (uncredited)
Paul McVey
General Hunter
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Charles West
Washington (DC) Citizen (uncredited)
Maurice Murphy
Orderly
Dick Elliott
Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt
Eric Mayne
Court-Martial Participant (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Testifying Colonel (uncredited)
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
Robert Dudley
Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
J.P. McGowan
Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
Maj. Rathbone (uncredited)
James A. Marcus
Blacksmith (uncredited)
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Bud Geary
Sergeant (uncredited)
Paul McAllister
Doctor (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Blue Washington
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Whitney Bourne
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
George H. Reed
Black Man Giving Booth Directions (uncredited)
Duke R. Lee
Sergeant (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
Wedgwood Nowell
Court-Martial Member (uncredited)
Jan Duggan
Actress at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
Stanley Bordagaray
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Earl Eby
Usher (uncredited)
Melvin J. Gibby
Lewis Payne (uncredited)
Charles Haefeli
Prisoner (uncredited)
John Lester Johnson
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Beulah Hall Jones
Blanche (uncredited)
Merrill McCormick
Commandant's Aide (uncredited)
Arthur Millett
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Vester Pegg
Soldier (uncredited)
Tom Steele
Trooper (uncredited)
Cyril Thornton
Michael O'Laughlin (uncredited)
Cecil Weston
Mary Surratt (uncredited)
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