The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
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Title: Houdini (TV Movie 1998)
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Cast
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| Johnathon Schaech | ... | Harry Houdini | |
| Stacy Edwards | ... | Bess Houdini | |
| Paul Sorvino | ... | Blackburn | |
| Rhea Perlman | ... | Esther | |
| David Warner | ... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Mark Ruffalo | ... | Theo | |
| Grace Zabriskie | ... | Mrs. Weiss | |
| Ron Perlman | ... | Booking Agent | |
| Karl Makinen | ... | Jim Collins | |
| Judy Geeson | ... | Lady Doyle | |
| Frank McRae | ... | Usher | |
| George Segal | ... | Beck | |
| Emile Hirsch | ... | Young Houdini | |
| Curt Lowens | ... | Samuel Weiss | |
| Jack McGee | ... | Street Vendor | |
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This biographical film tells the story of Harry Houdini, from his birth and immigration to the U.S., through his career in show business as first an escape artist and then a seance debunker, and finally his tragic death. We also see his relationship with wife Bess. Written by <crow_steve@hotmail.com>
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6 December 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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It is not a biographic movie. It is not homage to a great artist. It is only exploration of a myth. With errors, good intentions and a lot of exaggerations. A film for Johnathon Schaech's charm and for beginning of childhood dreams taste. Delicate and sweet, for who knows than magic is an ingredient of existence. For dreamers. And for remember a name. Old, lost, fascinating. It is not a film about Houdini. It is a short story about a character with his name but others ways of life and different nuances of facts. May be a Rider Digest material. About a shadow of a strange time for who the limits are fiction. "Houdini" is not a bad movie. And not a masterpiece. Only a show, very delicate with details but , in fact, a beautiful stamp, it is first step to discover a impressive science to broke the limits and to understand the days more than a summer rain.