O. Henry's Full House

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".

Cast

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

as Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

David Wayne

David Wayne

as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Dale Robertson

Dale Robertson

as Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

as Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter

as Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Jean Peters

Jean Peters

as Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff

as Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

Fred Allen

Fred Allen

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

Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

A compendium of five stories from the acclaimed US writer that are all quite entertaining. It starts off with a story about "Soapy" - a wily vagrant who decides that with winter coming, it's time to get himself snuggly incarcerated for the harsh weather. Who else but Charles Laughton could get that ...

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