The Prisoner of Shark Island

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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  Warner Baxter

  Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
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  Gloria Stuart

  Mrs. Peggy Mudd
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  Claude Gillingwater

  Colonel Dyer
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  Arthur Byron

  Mr. Erickson
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  O. P. Heggie

  Dr. Mac Intyre
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  Harry Carey

  Commandant
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  Francis Ford

  Corporal O'Toole
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  John McGuire

  Lieutenant Lovett
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  Francis McDonald

  John Wilkes Booth
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  Douglas Wood

  General Ewing