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The Prisoner of Shark Island is a 1936 American drama film loosely based on the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd, who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his controversial conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices.
A 1936 biopic of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination and was imprisoned on a shark-infested island. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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May 7, 2012 · The Prisoner of Shark Island is the story of Dr. Mudd as told by director John Ford based on an original screenplay by his longtime collaborator, Nunnally Johnson. In the film, Mudd (Warner Baxter) is portrayed as an innocent victim of circumstance unjustly accused and railroaded into a hasty conviction.
Purchase The Prisoner of Shark Island on digital and stream instantly or download offline. A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door.
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.
A movie about Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned for treating John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln. The plot follows his life in the Dry Tortugas prison, where he helps the guards and the prisoners during a yellow fever epidemic.
