O. Henry's Full House

Aug 7, 1952

1h 57m

★ 6.8

A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!

Overview

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

O. Henry's Full House Trailers

Cast

Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")

Fred Allen

Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Anne Baxter

Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Jeanne Crain

Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Farley Granger

Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Charles Laughton

William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")

Oscar Levant

Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Marilyn Monroe

Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Jean Peters

Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

Gregory Ratoff

Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

Dale Robertson

Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

David Wayne

Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Richard Widmark

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