O. Henry's Full House (1952)

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

★ 6.9 1h 57m Comedy · Drama

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".

Director

Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco

Cast

Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Dale Robertson, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff

Country

United States of America

Released

September 18, 1952