Animal Crackers
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse…
God’s Little Acre
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity,…
Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
O. Henry’s Full House
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…
Freak Orlando
Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring “Freak” Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.
She Loves Me Not
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Kid Speed
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys’s daughter. Another competitor crashes into the…
Doubting Thomas
A husband makes fun of his wife’s theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also…
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