Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Fred Allen
Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
O. Henry's Full House
“A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!”
6.8
1952
1h 57m
DramaComedy
Director: Henry Hathaway
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".
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Cast
Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Anne Baxter
Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Jeanne Crain
Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Farley Granger
Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Charles Laughton
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Oscar Levant
William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Marilyn Monroe
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Jean Peters
Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
Gregory Ratoff
Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")
Dale Robertson
Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
David Wayne
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
Richard Widmark
Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
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