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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
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2hrs 23min
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1980
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Pathfinder Home Ent.
Synopsis: The tragic story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who in 1865 was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor at the American penal colony of Fort Jefferson, was previously filmed as Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and Hellgate (1957). Made for television, The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd stars Dennis Weaver as the unfortunate Mudd, a Maryland medico whose only "crime" was to set the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger--who turned out to be John Wilkes Booth. Arrested on a charge of treason and complicity in the conspiracy to ... Full Synopsis
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Dr. Samuel Mudd
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