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