The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Drama, History | 28 February 1936
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
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.