Directed by:
George MarshallScreenplay:
Philip YordanCinematography:
Ernest LaszloComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel, Ian Wolfe, Sig Ruman, Michael Pate, Connie Gilchrist, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Frank Orth (more)VOD (3)
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While working as a Coney Island entertainer, Harry Houdini meets and falls madly in love with Bess. The two quickly marry, and with her at his side, the magician begins his rise to fame as the world's greatest escape artist and magician. But as the escapes get more and more dangerous, Bess worries that Harry may be taking his act too far. This biographical look at the life of Houdini takes several liberties with the facts, including how the magician died. (Signal One Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Tony Curtis
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Janet Leigh
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Little Women (1949)
Torin Thatcher
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Great Expectations (1946)
Band of Angels (1957)
Angela Clarke
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Houdini (1953)
Stefan Schnabel
German Empire
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Freud (1962)
Houdini (1953)
Ian Wolfe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love Crazy (1941)
Sig Ruman
German Empire
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Michael Pate
Australia
Best movies:
The Camel Boy (1984)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Court Jester (1955)
Connie Gilchrist
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Little Women (1949)
Act of Violence (1948)
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Best movies:
Houdini (1953)
Frank Orth
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Barry Bernard
UK
Best movies:
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Houdini (1953)
Douglas Spencer
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Heiress (1949)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Eric Alden
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Fred Aldrich
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Elsie Ames
USA
Best movies:
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Houdini (1953)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Peter Baldwin
USA
Best movies:
Stalag 17 (1953)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Bobby Barber
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
John Barton
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Oliver Blake
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)