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The Prisoner of Shark Island

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The Prisoner of Shark Island
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NR,1hr 45min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
February 28, 1936
Director:
John Ford
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater  ...more
Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known Confederate sympathizer, sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger who stumbles into his home. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of conspiring to murder President Lincoln. Sentenced to hang with the genuine conspirators, Mudd finds his sentence commuted to life imprisonment at the very last moment. He is shipped to Shark Island, a brutal penal ... Full Synopsis
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Karl Williams, AMG Review
The team of director John Ford, screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, and producer Darryl F. Zanuck was best remembered for its work on the classic The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Four years earlier, the same three men crafted the excellent The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), memorable as Ford's only foray into docudrama. While much of the depiction of Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter)'s relationship with his ... Full Review
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Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Mudd
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwater
Col. Dyer
Arthur Byron
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