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Overview: After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Cast:

Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Claude Gillingwater
Colonel Dyer

Arthur Byron
Mr. Erickson

O. P. Heggie
Dr. Mac Intyre

Harry Carey
Commandant

Francis Ford
Corporal O'Toole

John McGuire
Lieutenant Lovett

Francis McDonald
John Wilkes Booth

Douglas Wood
General Ewing

John Carradine
Sergeant Rankin

Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd

Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper

Ernest Whitman
Buck

Paul Fix
David Herold

Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt

Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln

Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

Etta McDaniel
Aunt Rosabelle

J.M. Kerrigan
Judge Maiben

Arthur Loft
Carpet Bagger

Paul McVey
General Hunter

Maurice Murphy
Orderly

Matthew Beard
Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)

Frank Baker
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone
Boy Seeking Dr. Mudd (uncredited)

Stanley Bordagaray
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Whitney Bourne
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Lester Dorr
George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)

Robert Dudley
Druggist at Trial (uncredited)

Jan Duggan
Actress at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)

Earl Eby
Usher (uncredited)

Dick Elliott
Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box (uncredited)

Bud Geary
Sergeant (uncredited)

Melvin J. Gibby
Lewis Payne (uncredited)

Charles Haefeli
Prisoner (uncredited)

Robert Homans
Sergeant (uncredited)

John Lester Johnson
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)

Beulah Hall Jones
Blanche (uncredited)

Paul Kruger
Soldier (uncredited)

Duke R. Lee
Sergeant (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas
Testifying Colonel (uncredited)

Murdock MacQuarrie
Edman Spangler (uncredited)

James A. Marcus
Blacksmith (uncredited)

Eric Mayne
Court-Martial Participant (uncredited)

Paul McAllister
Doctor (uncredited)

Merrill McCormick
Commandant's Aide (uncredited)

J.P. McGowan
Ship's Captain (uncredited)

Arthur Millett
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Wedgwood Nowell
Court-Martial Member (uncredited)

Robert Parrish
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Vester Pegg
Soldier (uncredited)

Jack Pennick
Corporal (uncredited)

George H. Reed
Black Man Giving Booth Directions (uncredited)

Paul Stanton
Agitating Orator (uncredited)

Tom Steele
Trooper (uncredited)

Harry Strang
Ship's Mate (uncredited)

Cyril Thornton
Michael O'Laughlin (uncredited)

Ray Turner
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)

Blue Washington
Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)

Charles West
Washington (DC) Citizen (uncredited)

Cecil Weston
Mary Surratt (uncredited)

Lloyd Whitlock
Maj. Rathbone (uncredited)