O. Henry's Full House

Plot Summary

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".

Top 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")