The Prisoner of Shark Island
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1hr
33mins
Directed by
John Ford,
Starring
Warner Baxter,
Gloria Stuart,
Claude Gillingwater,
Arthur Byron
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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.
