The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
62 audience votes
Key crew
- John FordDirector
- Nunnally JohnsonScreenplay
- R. H. BassettOriginal Music Composer
- Hugo FriedhoferOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
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Themes
yellow feverbased on true storyhistorical figureconspiracyphysicianisland prison19th centuryabraham lincolncountry doctorprison break attempt