Houdini (Blu-ray)

His feats of magic were GREAT! The magic of their love was GREATER!
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 15, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Olive

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User Ratings: 617
Rating: 3/5 -- There's enough whimsy on display to make the film a pleasant charmer. Full Review
DVDTalk.com
Jul 11, 2008
...A fun-for-kids fabrication about the legendary escape artist...
USA Today
Apr 19, 1991
Rating: 3/5 -- Standard issue star vehicle biopic.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Feb 12, 2004
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)
Feb 25, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Colorful, but full of falsehoods, story of Houdini. Curtis is pretty good.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Mar 24, 2008
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.... Full Review
Family Home Theater
Jan 16, 2018
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
Jul 26, 2003

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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  • Sales Rank: 59,286
  • UPC: 887090129510
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