O. Henry's Full House
The old debt (The Clarion Call): Henry Hathaway
The last leaf ( The Last Leaf ): Jean Negulesco
The Ransom of Red Chief: Howard Hawks
The old debt: Lucien Ballard
The last leaf: Milton R. Krasner
The Tramp and justice:
- Charles Laughton: Soapy
- Marilyn Monroe: the street girls
The old debt:
- Richard Widmark: Johnny Kernan
- Dale Robertson: Barney Woods
The last leaf:
- Anne Baxter: Joanna Goodwin
- Jean Peters: Susan Goodwin
- Gregory Ratoff: Behrman
The Ransom of Red Chief:
- Fred Allen: Sam ' Slick ' Brown
- Oscar Levant: Bill Peoria
- Lee Aaker: J. B. Dorset
The gift of love:
- Jeanne Crain: Della
- Farley Granger: Jim
Five Pearls is an American anthology film after short stories of O. Henry from the year 1952.
Action
The Tramp and the justice Soapy is a homeless man in New York who tries everything to can be locked into prison, that it is protected in the cold winter. When he wants to give up after a few failed attempts and change his life, he is suddenly but caught by the police and this time inserted against his will into prison.
The old debt: The policeman Barney is in debt to the gangsters Johnny. When Johnny commits a crime, white Barney not know if he should arrest the hoodlums.
The last leaf: In New York, Joanna becomes sick due to the cold and her sister Susan cares about them. The neighbor and painter Behrman helps by selling his fabrics. A sign for the healing of Joanna is the case of the last sheet of a tree nearby.
The Ransom of Red Chief: Sam and Bill kidnap a young man, but this proves to be smarter than them and can escape.
The Gift of Love: A young destitute couple selects mutually exclusive Christmas gifts secretly for the partner. The man puts his clock to purchase a set of hair combs for beautiful long hair of his wife. This can, however, pre- cut the hair to buy a watch chain for the clock of the man can.
Background
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The film was shown in 1953 in the German cinemas to an episode reduced under the title Four beads. The Ransom of Red Chief by Howard Hawks was missing. ZDF completed the film and sent him first time in 1986 and completely re-synchronized with the title Five Pearls.
Reviews
"Five different types of short stories by the American writer O'Henry, directed by five directors on significant artistic level and especially by fine sense of humor and warm humanity appealing. "
" If you want to set up a ranking, so cuts Charles Laughton in The Cop and the Anthem safely on top. His role is to bring the audience to laugh, and he achieved thus quite the high standard of his wit ... Marilyn Monroe 's time again honeyed as in The Asphalt Jungle and plays an amazingly well-proportioned street girls. "