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