A few hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door, not knowing the man is John Wilkes Booth. When the army posse searching for Booth find evidence that Booth had been to the doctor's house, he is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the dry Tortugas. Stars Warner Baxter. Directed by John Ford. 1936, 96 minutes.
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