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
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin
Bess Flowers
Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box (uncredited)
Paul Fix
David Herold
Harry Carey
Commandant
J.M. Kerrigan
Judge Maiben
Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre
Matthew Beard
Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)
J.P. McGowan
Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Wilfred Lucas
Testifying Colonel (uncredited)
Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole
Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer
Frank Baker
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Court-Martial Participant (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Ship's Mate (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Sergeant (uncredited)
Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson
Murdock MacQuarrie
Edman Spangler (uncredited)
Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt
Dick Elliott
Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Maurice Murphy
Orderly
Charles West
Washington (DC) Citizen (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Corporal (uncredited)
John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett
Arthur Loft
Carpet Bagger
Paul Kruger
Soldier (uncredited)
Bud Geary
Sergeant (uncredited)
Paul McVey
General Hunter
Ray Turner
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
Maj. Rathbone (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
General Ewing
Wedgwood Nowell
Court-Martial Member (uncredited)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln
Stanley Blystone
Boy Seeking Dr. Mudd (uncredited)
Blue Washington
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Whitney Bourne
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
George H. Reed
Black Man Giving Booth Directions (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Agitating Orator (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
James A. Marcus
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Jan Duggan
Actress at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Etta McDaniel
Aunt Rosabelle
Paul McAllister
Doctor (uncredited)
Duke R. Lee
Sergeant (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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