Houdini
His feats of magic were GREAT! The magic of their love was GREATER!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 15, 2016
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh | |
Performer: | Torin Thatcher, Ian Wolfe, Sig Ruman, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel, Michael Pate & Connie Gilchrist | |
Directed by | George Marshall | |
Edited by | George Tomasini | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Yordan | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Subject: | Harry Houdini | |
Produced by | George Pal | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
There's enough whimsy on display to make the film a pleasant charmer.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Accuracy, be darned; this is pure entertainment bio-pic with Tony Curtis at the height of his charismatic matinee idol period; plus working with wife Janet Leigh isn't bad either.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Rating: B+ --
Hollywood legend Tony Curtis gives one of his best performances in Houdini, a colorful biography set in the 1890s through 1920s, and he does it playing opposite his then-wife Janet Leigh....
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Family Home Theater
...A fun-for-kids fabrication about the legendary escape artist...
USA Today
Rating: 3/5 --
O filme se preocupa mais em mostrar o relacionamento de Houdini com a esposa do que sua obsessão por escapadas. De todo modo, Curtis está muito bem e convence como mágico.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: 3/5 --
Standard issue star vehicle biopic.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3/5 --
Colorful, but full of falsehoods, story of Houdini. Curtis is pretty good.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh star in this film biography of the great magician Harry Houdini (Curtis), spanning the years from age 21 to his death. The movie chronicles his beginnings as an illusionist in New York City, his quick courtship and marriage to wife Bess (Leigh), and his subsequent trip to Europe where his escape artistry brought him fame. Upon his return to the USA, Houdini began performing death-defying acts across the country, and soon became a household name. When his mother dies, Houdini retires to spend two years trying to contact her soul--an effort which leads him to publicly denounce mediums as con artists. Houdini returned to the stage, where fate awaited him. On Halloween night, 1926, he succumbed when attempting to escape from a water tank while constrained by a straight jacket. While far from being historically accurate, HOUDINI is an entertaining and revealing motion picture, and includes close to a dozen death-defying recreations of Houdini's magic.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 36,416
- UPC: 887090129411
- Shipping Weight: 0.20/lbs (approx)
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