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Prisoner Of Shark Island
TitlePrisoner Of Shark Island
Year1936
Time93 mins
GenreBiography; Drama; History
DirectorJohn Ford
Edition
FormatDVD
ActorWarner Baxter as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd; Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Peggy Mudd; Claude Gillingwater as Col. Jeremiah Milford Dyer; Arthur Byron as Mr. Erickson; O.P. Heggie as Dr. MacIntyre; Harry Carey as Commandant of Fort Jefferson; Francis Ford as Cpl. O'Toole; John McGuire as Lt. Lovett; Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth; Douglas Wood as Gen. Ewing; John Carradine as Sgt. Rankin; Joyce Kay as Martha Mudd; Fred Kohler Jr. as Sgt. Cooper; Ernest Whitman as Milford; Paul Fix as David Herold
Rating
CinematographyBert Glennon
LanguageEnglish
PlotA few short hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), Dr. Samuel Mudd (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 and referred to in the film as 'America's own Devil's Island'. After a period of ill treatment due to his notoriety, his skills as a doctor are requested by the Commandant of the prison. The island has been in the grip of a yellow fever epidemic and the official prison doctor has fallen ill. Dr. Mudd takes charge with the blessing of the Commandant and the cooperation of the soldier guards, and the yellow jack epidemic subsides. In the end he receives a pardon and is allowed to return home.
ProducerDarryl F. Zanuck; Nunnally Johnson
WriterNunnally Johnson
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Prisoner Of Shark Island