The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions. Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her. It details his beginnings as a carnival performer, later as a worker in a safe factory, and finally his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician. The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life.
Curtis good looks and versatility took him on to success in more than a hundred films, including Houdini, Trapeze. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira, and the costume design by Edith Head. As Tony Curtis, his break into films came in 1949 when he spent two minutes. But, as Tony Curtis, who plays the title role, says, magic is all I know, so it might as well be attributed to magic. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, was written by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Tony Curtis portrays magician Harry Houdini in the 1953 Hollywood movie Houdini Picture: AP From the movie Some Like It Hot shows US actors Jack Lemmon.
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