The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
After unwittingly aiding Lincoln's assassin, Dr. Samuel Mudd is condemned to life on an island prison in a mock court trial. An outbreak of yellow fever nearly decimates the island; Dr. Mudd regains both his dignity and his freedom when he saves guards and prisoners.3
Vintage magazines
Photoplay , March 1936
Photoplay , April 1936
Photoplay , April 1936
Books with substantial mentioning of The Prisoner of Shark Island
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Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank John Carradine: The Films Jefferson, NC, 1999 |
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James Robert Parish Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991 |
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| Tag Gallagher John Ford: The Man and His Films Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986 |
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J.A. Place The Non-Western Films of John Ford Secaucus, NJ, 1979 |
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Articles on The Prisoner of Shark Island
| Kent Jones, At Cross Purposes, in: Filmcomment, nr. 4 (July/August), 2006 pp. 22 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of The Prisoner of Shark Island
| Scott Allen Nollen with Douglas Brode, Screen Historian or American Myth Maker?, The Civil War According to John Ford, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017 |
| Tom Gunning, Mr. Lincoln by Mr. Ford and Mr. Griffith, Image and History in American Cinema, in: Jeff Menne and Christian B. Long (eds.), Film and the American presidency, New York; London, 2015 |