THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND.

Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) gives treatment to a man with a broken leg who shows up at his door. Mudd does not know that the president has been assassinated and the man who he is treating is John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) Mudd is arrested for being an accessory in the assassination and is sent to prison on the Dry Tortugas, described as in the West Indies.

Credits

Cast
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart
Complete catalog record
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND. 1936. 95 min., sd. Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. Credits: Associate producer, Nunnally Johnson; director, John Ford; screenplay, Nunnally Johnson. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 21Feb36; LP6233.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, color, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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