The Prisoner of Shark Island (movie)
- User score: 6.9
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: John Ford
- Production companies: 20th Century Fox
- Genre: Drama, History
- Release date: 2/28/1936
- Run time: 93 min.
Movie description
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.
