O. Henry's Full House (1952)
A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!
1952 · 1h 57m · Comedy, Drama
Genres: Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Howard Hawks
Writers: Ben Roberts, Lamar Trotti, Richard L. Breen
Music by: Alfred Newman
Cinematography: Lloyd Ahern Sr., Lucien Ballard
Cast
Charles Laughton as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")Marilyn Monroe as Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")David Wayne as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")Dale Robertson as Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")Richard Widmark as Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")Anne Baxter as Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")Jean Peters as Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")Gregory Ratoff as Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")Fred Allen as Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")Oscar Levant as William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")Jeanne Crain as Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")Farley Granger as Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")More like this
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