“The Cop and the Anthem,” a screen version of O. Henry’s short story, adapted by Lamar Trotti and directed by Henry Koster, starring Charles Laughton, David Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe, and introduced by John Steinbeck. This is an excerpt from O. Henry’s Full House, an anthology film released in 1952:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
