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The Angry Screen: The Prisoner of Shark Island

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring Warner Baxter
with Gloria Stuart, Harry Carey

After assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth breaks a leg while making his escape. Unaware of his patient's identity Dr Samuel Mudd sets the broken limb and Booth goes on his way. The doctor is arrested for complicity in the assassination-and sentenced to life imprisonment in the infamous fort known as Shark Island.
(This Week's Films: page S)

Contributors

Director:
John Ford
Dr Samuel Alexander Mudd:
Warner Baxter
Mrs Peggy Mudd:
Gloria Stuart
Col Dyer:
Claude Gillingwater
Mr Erickson:
Arthur Byron
Dr MacIntyre:
O.P. Heggie
Commandant:
Harry Carey
Cpl O'Toole:
Francis Ford
Lieut Lovett:
John McGuire
John Wilkes Booth:
Francis McDonald
Gen Ewing:
Douglas Wood
Sgt Rankin:
John Carradine
Martha Mudd:
Joyce Kay
Sgt Cooper:
Fred Koehler Jr
Buck:
Ernest Whitman
Source: Radio Times

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