Comedy · Drama
O. Henry's Full House
A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!
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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Top Cast
Charles Laughton
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Marilyn Monroe
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
David Wayne
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Dale Robertson
Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")
Richard Widmark
Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
Anne Baxter
Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Jean Peters
Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Gregory Ratoff
Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Production
20th Century FoxReviews
CinemaSerf
7/1011/3/2024
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 character up and running with an avuncular amiability and mischief to him, especially when he alights on the down on her luck lady of the night (Marilyn Monroe). Sadly for him, though, it seems it wasn't just Sam Goldwyn who couldn't get arrested in Hollywood. Next the "Clarion Call" sees a detective (Dale Robertson) attempt to prove whether or not his childhood friend (Richard Widmark) is guilty of killing a man when a robbery goes wrong. "The Last Leaf" has a rather sad premiss to it as a youn
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