![]() ![]() ANNOUNCING "John Garfield: The Original Rebel" Blo.To this day, in Houdini's memory, October 31st is celebrated as International Magic Day. though this film like most of old Hollywoods efforts is not historically accurate it still remains an entertaining movie with the famous couple of big stars. Although Houdini didn't die onstage at a Halloween performance, as this film would have you believe, he did, indeed, die on Halloween, 1926, several weeks after his last stage performance.He later collapsed on stage, was taken to the hospital and died there. In real life he was punched in the stomach by a college student who had heard that Houdini could withstand any blow without harm. Questo è il primo film basato sulla vita di Harry Houdini, film che portò molte inesattezze sulla sua vita, difatti Houdini non morì durante un suo numero (cosa che per un mago è offensiva) ma per peritonite. In the film he almost drowns in the torture tank trick and dies on the stage in the arms of his wife. The movie contains several factual errors, the most telling of which is the dramatization of Harry Houdini's death. ![]() A talented amateur magician, Tony Curtis performed most of his own tricks in this film.Three years before this film was made, 20th-Century Fox was negotiating with Houdini's family to make a picture called "The Life of Houdini" and starring Burt Lancaster in the title role. 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 his thenwife Janet Leigh. ![]()
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