The Prisoner of Shark Island
- Release Year
- 1936
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama
- History
- Directed By
- John Ford
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.
