O. Henry's Full House

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O. Henry's Full House (1952)

NR 08/07/1952 (US) Drama, Comedy 1h 57m

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

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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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Henry King

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Henry Hathaway

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Howard Hawks

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Jean Negulesco

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Richard L. Breen

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Walter Bullock

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Lamar Trotti

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Ivan Goff

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Ben Roberts

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Top Billed Cast

Fred Allen

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

Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Jeanne Crain

Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Farley Granger

Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Charles Laughton

Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Oscar Levant

William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Marilyn Monroe

Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Jean Peters

Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
Gregory Ratoff

Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
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A review by CinemaSerf

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Written by CinemaSerf on November 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... read the rest.

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