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