The Prisoner of Shark Island

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Warner Baxter Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Gloria Stuart Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Claude Gillingwater Colonel Dyer

Arthur Byron Mr. Erickson

O. P. Heggie Dr. Mac Intyre