The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Country doctor Samuel Mudd is unfairly punished by the U.S. Government after he unwisely shelters a wounded John Wilkes Booth during the night after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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"I have always been a fan of history especially the Lincoln assassination. I had previously written of how much I enjoyed The Day Lincoln Was Shot. Almost twenty years earlier, this film told the story of one of the players in this tragedy. What happened to Doctor Mudd was a terrible miscarriage of justice because he was only a doctor doing his duty who had nothing to do with Lincoln's assassination. This film captures the terrible mood in the country after the tragedy where reason took a back seat and there was a terrible desire for vengeance and not justice. This film is harrowing in its..."
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Surprisingly, a Nazi flag can be seen in the window of one of the houses in the far background of several shots, due to a homeowner being mad that the movie's production company wasn't paying him or any of the other homeowners. Production halted while the producers tried to reach an agreement with him. He took the flag down after the homeowners were all paid but some footage that had already been shot with the flag still made it into the movie. This homeowner was Jim Williams, an antiques dealer whose life story was the basis for the novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and the subsequent 1997 film.
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Country doctor Samuel Mudd is unfairly punished by the U.S. Government after he unwisely shelters a wounded John Wilkes Booth during the night after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.