The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
March 25, 1980Release Date
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
March 25, 1980Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dennis Weaver
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
Susan Sullivan
Frances Mudd
Richard Dysart
Edwin Stanton
Nigel Davenport
Colonel George Grenfell
Michael McGuire
Capt. Murdock
Arthur Hill
General Thomas Ewing
Paul Wendkos
Director
Larry Larson
Riggins Thorpe
Michael Berk
Writer
Mary Nell Santacroce
Ellen Stanton
Douglas Schwartz
Writer
Gerald Fried
Composer
Clarence Thomas
Nathaniel
Héctor R. Figueroa
Cinematographer
Teddy Milford
Andrew Mudd at Age 6
Ken Zemke
Editor
Angela Tully
Sissy Mudd at Age 4
Ryan Grady
Thomas Mudd at Age 3
Bill Gribble
Tyler / John Wilkes Booth
Luke Halpin
Tyson / David Herrold
Terry Beaver
Union Sergeant
Sean Ahern
1st Union Soldier
Roy Tatum
Lt. Lovett
Don Kovacs
Officer Lloyd
Lawrence Montaigne
Judge Holt
Harold Bergman
Undersecretary
Fred Covington
Attorney Lake
Joe Dorsey
Gen. Edward Trafe
Jim Peck
Gen. Harris
Greg Oliver
Louis Weichmann
Bill Eudaly
Daniel Thomas
Don Devendorf
George Mudd
Tony Kish
William Watson
Wallace Wilkinson
D.C. Prison Guard
Anthony Edenfield
Escaped Prisoner
Jere Beery
3rd Guard
Kent Stephens
Zachary
Stuart Culpepper
Boone
Mark Rand
Andrew Mudd at Age 9
Melonie Martin
Sissy Mudd at Age 7
Earl Miller
Thomas Mudd at Age 6
David Hamilton
Sam Jr. at Age 4
Richard Andrew
Dr. Anthony Ellis
Dan Chandler
Master Sergeant
Richard Reiner
6th Guard
Don Ferguson
4th Soldier
Jack Norhanian
5th Guard
Pat Hurley
1st Patient
Details.
Wiki.
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd is a 1980 historical drama film directed by Paul Wendkos. Based on a true story, it revolves around the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Dennis Weaver plays the lead role of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the killing.In 1979, during the filming of the movie on Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia, preservationist and antiques dealer Jim Williams hung a flag of Nazi Germany outside of a window at his Mercer House home in an attempt to disrupt the shoot, after the film company declined to make a donation to the local humane society, as Williams had requested. The Congregation Mickve Israel, located across the square, complained to the city. Williams was later the main subject of John Berendt's 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
At the end of the film, a written message appears, incorrectly stating that President Jimmy Carter gave Mudd a posthumous pardon.