Mudd helps the guards and the other prisoners to cure the disease. When the prison is isolated due to a yellow fever epidemic, Dr. Mudd is a scapegoat and sentenced to life imprisonment in the hopeless prison in the Dry Tortugas, in Gulf of Mexico. Mudd is arrested by the army for helping John Wilkes Booth and together with seven other suspects, they are sent to a military court without civil rights. Samuel Alexander Mudd (Warner Baxter) that does not know that his patient has murdered the president.ĭr. He flees with an accomplice and once in Maryland, they seek medical treatment with the country Dr. On 09 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) breaks his leg after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.). Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10 Leave Hope Behind Who Enters Here Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas. But that doesn't save him when the army posse searching for Booth finds evidence that Booth has been to the doctor's house. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr.
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