Houdini

"His feats of magic were GREAT! The magic of their love was GREATER!"

Jul 2 1953 Approved 1h 46m
Biography, Drama

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

Plot

The amazing career of master magician Harry Houdini is presented from his beginnings with a carnival "wild man" act to his emergence as an internationally-acclaimed illusionist, From his dramatic escape from a locked safe under the frozen Detroit River to an even more improbable one from a locked cell in Scotland Yard, he never failed to please and astound his audiences. Although Houdini's tricks are achieved through his marvelous physical dexterity and innate sleight-of-hand, he courted death with the hazardous illusions he performed and his compulsive quest to make contact with the spirit world.

Written by

Philip Yordan, Harold Kellock

Directed by

George Marshall

Cast

Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Paramount

Languages

English

Awards

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Trailers
HOUDINI (1953) trailer
Scores
# of Votes
3,965
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
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