''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 Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco fa ...

, 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 Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia, is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States, as it was organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony i ...

, 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ordeal of Dr. Mudd 1980 films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films Films shot in Savannah, Georgia CBS network films