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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd6.9
Plot
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.
Writer | Nunnally Johnson |
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Director | John Ford |
Actor | Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater |
Country | United States of America |
Production | 20th Century Fox |