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