O. Henry's Full House 1952

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".

On location

The cast

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

Anne Baxter Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Jeanne Crain Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Farley Granger Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Charles Laughton Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

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

Marilyn Monroe Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Jean Peters Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Gregory Ratoff Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

Dale Robertson Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

David Wayne Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Richard Widmark Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Joyce Mackenzie

Lee Aaker J.B. Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")

Top billing shown. Full cast and crew on IMDB ↗

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