The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

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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… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By
John Ford
Written By
Nunnally Johnson
Genres
Western, Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Feb 28, 1936 Wide
On DVD
Feb 14, 2006
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Ford makes a convincing and emotionally telling argument for Mudd's innocence.

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