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    The Prisoner of Shark Island

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    1936     Biography drama    
    USA
    1h 36min

    A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. Dr. Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas.

    Directed byJohn Ford
    Written byNunnally Johnson
    Company20th Century Studios20th Century Studios20th Century Studios

    Starring

    Warner Baxter
    Gloria Stuart
    Harry Carey
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