O. Henry's Full House

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

  • Rated 6.9 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1952
  • 1h 57m
  • 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. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

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Director
Henry Hathaway
Starring
Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Dale Robertson

Cast

  • Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton

    Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

  • Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

    Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

  • David Wayne

    David Wayne

    Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

  • Dale Robertson

    Dale Robertson

    Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

  • Richard Widmark

    Richard Widmark

    Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

  • Anne Baxter

    Anne Baxter

    Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

  • Jean Peters

    Jean Peters

    Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

  • Gregory Ratoff

    Gregory Ratoff

    Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

  • Fred Allen

    Fred Allen

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

  • Oscar Levant

    Oscar Levant

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

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