Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) - (Movie Clip) In The Sight Of The Holy God I Worship

Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Old Abe's All Right

First scene for title character Warner Baxter as Marylander Dr. Samuel Mudd, Gloria Stuart his wife, both unaware that President Lincoln has been shot, and that their guests (Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth, Paul Fix his cohort) are culpable, early in John Ford’s The Prisoner Of Shark Island, 1936.

Prisoner Of Shark Island, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Ask The Band To Play Dixie

Director John Ford opens with a dramatic staging of an even that, though often forgotten, roughly did happen, Frank McGlynn Sr. in one of several portrayals of President Lincoln, at the White House on the evening of Lee’s surrender, in The Prisoner Of Shark Island, 1936, starring Warner Baxter.