Houdini

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Category: 39
All Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1998
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Pen Densham
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:

  • He made a life out of cheating death

  • Writing by: Pen Densham – (written by)

    Produced by: Kenneth D. Collins – associate producer
    Pen Densham – executive producer
    Jennifer Hare – co-producer
    Richard Barton Lewis – executive producer
    Leanne Moore – producer
    Mark Stern – executive producer
    John Watson – executive producer

    Cast: 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

    Music: Don Harper
    Official Website: Visit Website


    Plot Outline: The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
    Plot: 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.

    Movie Quotes: Admiral Reigart: You still got your boots, have you, cowboy?
    Chris Burnett: Roger. They were tied on.


    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Dinosaurs – Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops Aussies Oblivious to the Fall of Paris — Evan Oppenheimer, Michael Laudrup Most Background Appearances, Male — Martin Schepelern Most Background Appearances, Female — Lia Levenson

    Goofs: We know about 39 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: The rank insignia change regularly on Reigart's uniform, despite his not having been obviously promoted.

    Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • As Master Chief O'Malley (David Keith) leads Lt. Burnett to see Admiral Reigart, Burnett asks him if he caught the University of Tennessee's football game loss the previous Saturday. O'Malley replied, “I don't know anything about that.” David Keith graduated from the University of Tennessee.
    • This is the first movie to feature the US Navy's new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
    • In the very beginning when the reporter speaks, he speaks of a Cincinnati Accord that brought a cease fire. There was a real agreement like this, only it was the Dayton Accord.


    Houdini

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    Category: Biography
    All Genres: Biography, Drama
    Release Year: 1953
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 106
    Rating: 8.1 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: George Marshall
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Body to body is the name of the game [DVD Australia]
  • An erotic duet for four players.
  • Beyond the physical edge…

  • Writing by: Harold Kellock – book
    Philip Yordan – writer

    Produced by: Frank Freeman Jr. – associate producer
    George Pal – producer

    Cast: Tony Curtis – Harry Houdini
    Janet Leigh – Bess Houdini
    Torin Thatcher – Otto (Von Schwagers assistant)
    Angela Clarke – Mrs. Weiss
    Stefan Schnabel – German Prosecuting Attorney
    Ian Wolfe – Malue
    Sig Ruman – Schultz
    Michael Pate – Dooley (London examiner)
    Connie Gilchrist – Mrs. Shultz
    Malcolm Lee Beggs – British jail warden
    Frank Orth – Mr. Hunter (safe expert)

    Music: Roy Webb
    Official Website: Visit Website


    Plot Outline: A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy…
    Plot: A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, “Who has the gun?” Will there be violence before its over?

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Prior to the opening credits being shown, statistics about American campus shootings are displayed onscreen set to shots of the canyons of the Southwest.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Revealing mistakes: When the Houdinis and the reporter are being driven to the s?ance, the same rear projection loop is continually run in the cars back window, repeatedly showing the same background traffic, with the splice where the loop begins plainly visible each time.

    Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • Harry Houdinis real name was Weiss, and he is played here by Tony Curtis, whose real name is Schwartz.
    • The movie contains several factual errors, the most telling of which is the dramatization of his death. In the film he runs into a prop sword handle and ruptures his appendix, then almost drowns in the torture tank trick and dies on the stage in the arms of his wife. In real life he was punched in the stomach by a college boy who had heard that Houdini could withstand any blow without harm. This did, indeed, rupture his appendix. He later collapsed on stage, was taken to the hospital and died there.


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