The Prisoner of Shark Island
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
Directed by John Ford
Produced by 20th Century Fox
A historical drama about a physician wrongly imprisoned for his inadvertent role in Lincoln's assassination, grappling with injustice, conspiracy, and survival in a brutal island prison.
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.
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