The Prisoner of Shark Island

Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

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.

Drama History

Warner Baxter

(Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd)

Gloria Stuart

(Mrs. Peggy Mudd)

Claude Gillingwater

(Colonel Dyer)

Arthur Byron

(Mr. Erickson)

O. P. Heggie

(Dr. Mac Intyre)

Harry Carey

(Commandant)

Francis Ford

(Corporal O'Toole)

John McGuire

(Lieutenant Lovett)

Francis McDonald

(John Wilkes Booth)

Douglas Wood

(General Ewing)

John Carradine

(Sergeant Rankin)

Joyce Kay

(Martha Mudd)

Fred Kohler Jr.

(Sergeant Cooper)

Ernest Whitman

(Buck)

Paul Fix

(David Herold)

Frank Shannon

(Mr. Holt)

Frank McGlynn Sr.

(Abraham Lincoln)

Leila McIntyre

(Mrs. Abraham Lincoln)

Etta McDaniel

(Aunt Rosabelle)

J.M. Kerrigan

(Judge Maiben)

Arthur Loft

(Carpet Bagger)

Paul McVey

(General Hunter)

Maurice Murphy

(Orderly)

Matthew Beard

(Boy at Dr. Mudd's door)