This is an extremely well made film, for its time, about Dr. Mudd's complicity (and knowledge) in aiding John Wilkes Booth in his escape after Lincoln's assassination. Factually, the film is very well done, though it tends to paint him as completely ignorant of who Booth was, and tones down Mudd's Southern sympathy and tries to make him look less "Southern" than he was.
His work at the prison in Dry Tortugas is also very well done, and is also very factual, according to Union guards testimony at the prison, as well as during Mudd's parole board hearings.
All in all, it is a very well made and factual film!
His work at the prison in Dry Tortugas is also very well done, and is also very factual, according to Union guards testimony at the prison, as well as during Mudd's parole board hearings.
All in all, it is a very well made and factual film!