Drama ·Comedy · United States of America · 1952 · 1h 57m

O. Henry's Full House

Director

Henry Hathaway Howard Hawks Henry King Henry Koster Jean Negulesco

Cast

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")

Crew

Alfred Newman — Original Music Composer Lamar Trotti — Screenplay Richard L. Breen — Screenplay Ivan Goff — Screenplay Ben Roberts — Screenplay Walter Bullock — Screenplay

Tagline

A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!

Synopsis

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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