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

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.

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

As Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg on the night he shot Lincoln, title character Warner Baxter is getting railroaded at trial, Douglas Wood his lawyer, Arthur Byron the prosecutor, Robert Dudley and others testifying, a grim turn in John Ford’s The Prisoner Of Shark Island, 1936.