Overview - O. Henry's Full House

Overview

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

• Name: Fred Allen

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

  Popularity: 0.1218

  

• Name: Anne Baxter

  Character: Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

  Popularity: 1.123

  

• Name: Jeanne Crain

  Character: Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

  Popularity: 0.3308

  

• Name: Farley Granger

  Character: Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

  Popularity: 0.4955

  

• Name: Charles Laughton

  Character: Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

  Popularity: 0.7799

  

• Name: Oscar Levant

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

  Popularity: 0.3046

  

• Name: Marilyn Monroe

  Character: Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

  Popularity: 1.0136

  

• Name: Jean Peters

  Character: Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

  Popularity: 0.3994