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Genres:
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Drama
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Actors:
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Oscar Levant,
Jean Peters,
Fred Allen,
Dale Robertson,
Anne Baxter,
Jeanne Crain,
Farley Granger,
Charles Laughton,
Marilyn Monroe,
Gregory Ratoff
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)57
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Plot Summary:
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Five O' Henry stories, each separate. The notify rhyme from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow touch Horace that he is going to contrive arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice quod room. He fails. He can't even accost a charwoman; 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".
John Steinbeck introduces five of O. Henry's most stylish short stores. In "The Cop and the Anthem" a vagrants alchy is increasingly frustrated in numerous attempts to drag arr... ested and jailed as a service to 90 days in a warm chamber pretty than evidently put in the rigors of a Advanced York winter. In "The Clarion Call" a NYPD detective has a crisis of honour when he is torn between his burden to arrest a adolescence supporter recompense a murder however he knows he committed and the liability of honor he owes to him. In "The Pattern Leaf" a naive young girl is stricken with pneumonia after being seduced and jilted sooner than venal actor. When she loses her purposefulness to live, her devoted sister and an curious Greenwich Village artist try to pinch her to survive. In "The Ransom of Red Chief" two bumbling con men kidnap the son of a georgic sheriff for payment but find they've infatuated on more than they can utilize. In "The Honorarium of the Magi" an drained but devoted brood brace labour to reciprocate for Christmas gifts eminence of their mutual love.Read more Less
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