One of the most influential directors in the history of cinema, John Ford helmed more than 140 films and received countless awards for his extensive craftsmanship, including four Best Director Academy Awards. Consistently setting and breaking his own standards for excellence, the fiery Irish-American visionary has been named a significant source of inspiration by today's top film directors.

This fascinating drama is based on the true story of a physician accused of participating in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

When John Wilkes Booth shows up at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) with a broken leg, Mudd treats the man, having no idea that Booth has just murdered President Lincoln. But the physician, a Confederate sympathizer, is implicated in the killing, and is sentenced to life at Shark Island, a brutal penitentiary. Despite the harsh environment and abuse he suffers from Sergeant Rankin (John Carradine), when Yellow Fever strikes inside the prison, Mudd's heroic effort to combat the disease causes his accusers to rethink their condemnation of the doctor.