After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
The Prisoner of Shark Island has generally received positive reviews.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island was released in 1936 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 24 reviews, giving The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Prisoner of Shark Island than critics were.
With a score of 70%, The Prisoner of Shark Island is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1936, which stands at 60%.
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