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The Prisoner of Shark Island

Release Date:February 28, 1936

Running Time:93 min

Genres:Drama, History

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Cast

Warner Baxter Gloria Stuart Claude Gillingwater Arthur Byron O. P. Heggie Harry Carey Francis Ford John McGuire Francis McDonald Douglas Wood John Carradine Joyce Kay

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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