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Houdini (1998) starring Johnathon Schaech, Stacy Edwards, Mark Ruffalo Recently, I watched the 1998 Houdini TV biography; I was interested to see how it stood up to other Houdini biographies I’ve seen, such as 1950’s Houdini biography with Tony Curtis, or the more recent Houdini with Adrien Brody. In my opinion,...
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October 18, 2017 user
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The Master Mystery (1920) starring Harry Houdini The Master Mystery stars Harry Houdini as Justice Department agent Quentin Locke, who is investigating a powerful cartel that’s protected by a “menacing” robot (referred to in the film as “the Automaton‘); the cartel is using a gas weapon called “the Madagascar...
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October 17, 2017 user
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Houdini – History Channel biography of Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody Something that comes to mind about the History Channel’s Houdini biography, is actually a comic strip. Once, many years ago in the Bloom County comic strip, Opus the penguin was writing a movie review, which read in...
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October 16, 2017 user
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movie review of The Grim Game (1919) starring Harry Houdini The Grim Game was a silent film starring the great magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. He stars as Harvey Hanford, a man wrongly convicted of crimes that he didn’t commit. Using Houdini’s renowned escape abilities, Houdini quickly escapes out of jail. Harvey...
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October 15, 2017 user
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Biography of Harry Houdini (1874-1926) Houdini means “escape artist or other ingenious person,” according to the dictionary. Harry Houdini epitomizes that, of course, as the man who created the field of escape artistry, as well as becoming the most famous magician of his day, and equally well known for...
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October 15, 2017 user
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Death Defying Acts (2007) starring Guy Pierce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan The movie Death Defying Acts is a Hollywood fantasy, based very loosely on the life of Harry Houdini. The basic plot of the movie has Harry Houdini crusading against false psychics (which was true). He offered...
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October 13, 2017 user
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Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini. The struggling circus performer who emerged as the world s most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a wild man carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an...
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October 12, 2017 user
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