O. Henry's Full House

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".

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")

Fred Allen

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

Oscar Levant

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