The Prisoner of Shark Island

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.

• John FordDirector
• Nunnally JohnsonScreenplay
• R. H. BassettOriginal Music Composer
• Hugo FriedhoferOriginal Music Composer

• Warner BaxterDr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
• Gloria StuartMrs. Peggy Mudd
• Claude GillingwaterColonel Dyer
• Arthur ByronMr. Erickson
• O. P. HeggieDr. Mac Intyre
• Harry CareyCommandant
• Francis FordCorporal O'Toole
• John McGuireLieutenant Lovett
• Francis McDonaldJohn Wilkes Booth
• Douglas WoodGeneral Ewing
• John CarradineSergeant Rankin
• Joyce KayMartha Mudd