Release Date: Feb 28, 1936 Wide
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known Confederate sympathizer, sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger who stumbles into his home. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of conspiring to murder President Lincoln. Sentenced to hang with the genuine conspirators, Mudd finds his sentence commuted to life imprisonment at the very last moment. He is shipped to Shark Island, a brutal
Feb 28, 1936 Wide
Feb 14, 2006
20th Century Fox
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Ford makes a convincing and emotionally telling argument for Mudd's innocence.
A barely watchable film and its blatant racism makes it all the more difficult to appreciate. Worse than all, the Dr Mudd is presented as some sort of hero whereas his heroic deed was to have two shots fired at a ship. The Kafkaesque part of the story is pleasant nonetheless but over all the script's too poor for the
July 24, 2009Netter Film von John Ford der aber die ein oder andere kleinere Länge vorzuweisen hat. 3/5
December 2, 2010
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