The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

The Prisoner of Shark Island
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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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Cast

George H. Reed
as Black Man Giving Booth Directions (uncredited)
Gloria Stuart
as Mrs. Peggy Mudd
John Carradine
as Sergeant Rankin
Paul Fix
as David Herold
J.M. Kerrigan
as Judge Maiben
Bess Flowers
as Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box (uncredited)
Harry Carey
as Commandant
Paul Stanton
as Agitating Orator (uncredited)
Etta McDaniel
as Aunt Rosabelle
Dick Elliott
as Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Frank Baker
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
John McGuire
as Lieutenant Lovett
Jack Pennick
as Corporal (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
as Carpet Bagger
Francis Ford
as Corporal O'Toole
Paul Kruger
as Soldier (uncredited)
Ray Turner
as Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
Duke R. Lee
as Sergeant (uncredited)
Matthew Beard
as Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
Jan Duggan
as Actress at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
Arthur Byron
as Mr. Erickson
Claude Gillingwater
as Colonel Dyer
Eric Mayne
as Court-Martial Participant (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
as George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)
Warner Baxter
as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Francis McDonald
as John Wilkes Booth
Wilfred Lucas
as Testifying Colonel (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
as Edman Spangler (uncredited)
Charles West
as Washington (DC) Citizen (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
as Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
as General Ewing
J.P. McGowan
as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Harry Strang
as Ship's Mate (uncredited)
Paul McVey
as General Hunter
Frank McGlynn Sr.
as Abraham Lincoln
Frank Shannon
as Mr. Holt
Whitney Bourne
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Robert Homans
as Sergeant (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
as Maj. Rathbone (uncredited)
Fred Kohler Jr.
as Sergeant Cooper
Blue Washington
as Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)

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