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The Prisoner of Shark Island

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The Prisoner of Shark Island

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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Prisonerofsharkisland.jpg
film poster by Joseph A. Maturo
Directed byJohn Ford
Produced byNunnally Johnson
Darryl F. Zanuck
Written byNunnally Johnson
StarringWarner Baxter
Gloria Stuart
Frank McGlynn
Francis McDonald
Music byR.H. Bassett
Hugo Friedhofer
CinematographyBert Glennon
Edited byJack Murray
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • February 28, 1936 (1936-02-28)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Prisoner of Shark Island is a 1936 film loosely based on the life of Samuel Mudd, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by John Ford, and starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart. Twentieth Century Pictures, before they merged with Fox, purchased the rights to the book The Life of Dr. Mudd by Nettie Mudd Monroe, doctor's daughter. The film's credits, however, make no reference to Monroe or her book. Modern sources state that Darryl F. Zanuck, Twentieth Century's vice-president in charge of production, got the idea to make the film after he read an article in Time magazine about the prison camp for political prisoners on the Dry Tortugas island.[1]

Plot[edit]

A few short hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) gives treatment to a man with a broken leg who shows up at his door. Mudd does not know that the president has been assassinated and the man who he is treating is John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald). Mudd is arrested for being an accessory in the assassination and is sent to prison on the Dry Tortugas, described as in the West Indies and referred to in the film as "America's own Devil's Island".

After a period of ill treatment due to his notoriety, and an unsuccessful escape attempt, his skills as a doctor are requested by the Commandant of the prison. The island has been in the grip of a yellow fever epidemic and the official prison doctor has fallen ill. Dr. Mudd takes charge with the blessing of the Commandant and the cooperation of the soldier guards, and the yellow jack epidemic subsides.

In the end he receives a pardon and is allowed to return home.

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Further reading[edit]

  • Hughes, James (November 7, 2012). "REVIEW: The Prisoner of Shark Island". Oxford American. Shark Island still manages, seventy-five years later, to be adventurous, bizarre, redemptive, and blistering in its assessment of American power. A must for the Lincoln catalog.  A reconsideration of the film in the context of the 2012 film Lincoln.
  • Schwartz, Dennis (December 14, 2007). "The Prisoner of Shark Island". Ozus' World Movie Reviews.  A recent, positive review by the prolific online critic.

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