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A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry! - O. Henry's Full House
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Title: O. Henry's Full House

Release Date: 7 Aug 1952

Runtime: 1h 57m

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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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Average Vote: 6.5 (35 votes)

Cast

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