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The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936
Directed byJohn Ford
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.

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Warner BaxterDr. Samuel Alexander MuddGloria StuartMrs. Peggy Mudd
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STATUSReleased
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6.8

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