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O. Henry's Full House (1952)
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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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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Genre:Comedy, Drama
Written By:Lamar Trotti, Richard L. Breen, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Walter Bullock
In Theaters:9/18/1952
Box Office:
Runtime:117 minutes
Studio:20th Century Fox
Cast
Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco
Director
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")
Jeanne Crain
Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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