O. Henry's Full House

August. 07,1952      NR
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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".

Fred Allen as  Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Anne Baxter as  Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Jeanne Crain as  Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Farley Granger as  Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Charles Laughton as  Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Oscar Levant as  William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Marilyn Monroe as  Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Jean Peters as  Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Gregory Ratoff as  Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
Dale Robertson as  Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

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