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O. Henry's Full House
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O. Henry's Full House

Aug 7, 1952
1h 57m
★ 6.5

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

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Cast

Fred Allen

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

Fred Allen

Anne Baxter

Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Anne Baxter

Jeanne Crain

Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Jeanne Crain

Farley Granger

Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Farley Granger

Charles Laughton

Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Charles Laughton

Oscar Levant

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

Oscar Levant

Marilyn Monroe

Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Marilyn Monroe

Jean Peters

Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Jean Peters

Gregory Ratoff

Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

Gregory Ratoff

Dale Robertson

Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

Dale Robertson

David Wayne

Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

David Wayne

Richard Widmark

Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Richard Widmark