The Prisoner of Shark Island

“Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd”

In April 1865, Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), a Maryland physician, sets the broken leg of a stranger who turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, the man who has just shot President Lincoln. John Ford follows the arrest, the conspiracy trial, and the life sentence that sends Mudd to Shark Island Prison. His wife Peggy (Gloria Stuart) waits at home, and he has only his name and his innocence to keep.