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