Drama History
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
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
Paul Fix
David Herold
John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin
Harry Carey
Commandant
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
J.M. Kerrigan
Judge Maiben
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Matthew Beard
Boy at Dr. Mudd's door
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Arthur Loft
Carpet Bagger
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Etta McDaniel
Aunt Rosabelle
Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln
Paul McVey
General Hunter
Maurice Murphy
Orderly
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

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