O. HENRY'S FULL HOUSE - DVD

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• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Classic, Short
• Plot: O. Henry’s Full House is a recently repolished cinema gem, a must for film fans and for those who love the short stories of O. Henry (born William Sidney Porter). This collection features five of O. Henry’s tales made into short films, and released in theaters in 1952 as a collection--an experiment in adapting short stories as simple short films, not padded out to theatrical lengths. The collection features a stable of 20th Century Fox’s top contract players, including Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Farley Granger, and a dewy-cheeked Marilyn Monroe, and five topnotch directors including Henry Hathaway and Howard Hawks. The five stories include O. Henry’s signature tale of grace and selflessness, 'The Gift of the Magi,' as well as 'The Cop and the Anthem' (in which a hobo literally can’t get himself arrested); 'The Clarion Call' (a noirish crime mystery with loads of side-of-the-mouth cracks, like calling a guy 'You clamhead!'); 'The Last Leaf' (with a radiant Baxter and Jean Peters); and 'The Ransom of Red Chief,' a kidnap cautionary tale. The twists that O. Henry’s stories are famous for perhaps work better on the page than on film, and yet the acting and production values are so superb the tales are moving and their short lengths are just right. ;
• Cast: Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger, Charles Laughton, Oscar Levant, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff, Dale Robertson, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Joyce Mackenzie, Lee Aaker, Richard Rober, Fred Kelsey, Richard Garrick, John Steinbeck, Richard Allen, Phil Arnold, Irving Bacon, Warner Baxter, Carl Betz, Harry Carter, Robert Cherry, Frank Cusack, Abe Dinovitch, Robert Easton, Fritz Feld, James Flavin, Robert Foulk, Kathleen Freeman, Steven Geray, Everett Glass, Gloria Gordon, A. Cameron Grant, Tom Greenway, Harry Hayden, Thomas Browne Henry, Bert Hicks, Marjorie Holliday, Jimmie Horan, Richard Hylton, Frank Jaquet, Richard Karlan, Don Kohler, Ann Kunde, Norman Leavitt, Nico Lek, Jack Mather, David McMahon, Tyler McVey, Frank Mills, Alfred Mizner, Ava Norring, William J. O'Brien, House Peters, Stuart Randall, Sig Ruman, Henry Slate, Hal Smith, Bert Stevens, Warren Stevens, Harry Tenbrook, Beverly Thompson, Philip Tonge, Phil Tully, William Vedder, Ernö Verebes, Herb Vigran, Ruth Warren, Billy Wayne, Martha Wentworth, Will Wright, May Wynn, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco, Lamar Trotti, Richard L. Breen, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Walter Bullock, Philip Dunne, Ben Hecht, O. Henry, Nunnally Johnson, Charles Lederer
• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie