---
title: 'The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Ford'
released: '1936-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-prisoner-of-shark-island-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028141/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

1936 · 94 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

The Prisoner of Shark Island is a 1936 American drama film that presents a dramatized life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his unanimous conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, was directed by John Ford and starred Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Screenplay:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Reginald Hazeltine Bassett](https://cinepixo.com/people/reginald-hazeltine-bassett)
- **Producer:** [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck)
- **Director of Photography:** [Bert Glennon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-glennon)
- **Editor:** [Jack Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-murray)

## Cast

- [Paul McAllister](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mcallister)
- [Frank McGlynn Sr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-mcglynn-sr)
- [Arthur Byron](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-byron)
- [Gloria Stuart](https://cinepixo.com/people/gloria-stuart)
- [Jack Pennick](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-pennick)
- [Claude Gillingwater](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-gillingwater)
- [Warner Baxter](https://cinepixo.com/people/warner-baxter)
- [Etta McDaniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/etta-mcdaniel)
- [Douglas Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-wood-2)
- [O.P. Heggie](https://cinepixo.com/people/o-p-heggie)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)
- [J. M. Kerrigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-m-kerrigan)
- [John Carradine](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carradine)
- [Francis Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford)
- [Francis McDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-mcdonald)

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