As I said before, Yordan’s script plays fast and loose with facts. Philip Yordan’s ( Broken Lance) screenplay is loosely based on the 1928 book by Harold Kellock. The film was directed by George Marshall ( Destry Rides Again). Houdini does, however, try to capture the essence of the famous artist. This is Hollywood in the 1950s, so I don’t have to tell you that most of the film is fiction. Houdini is, of course, based on the real-life of the legendary escapist artist Harry Houdini, who has become synonymous with escapologism and magic. This George Pal production, shot in spiffy Technicolor, is a joy from beginning to end. There is no subtext, no hidden meaning, no complex visual trickery Houdini aims to entertain you and in that regard the film is a complete success. “It’ll be the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done.” After many false starts, Houdini realizes his dream of becoming the world’s greatest escapist artist. Bess initially objects to Houdini’s job, but she slowly begins to support her husband’s ambitions. In 2008, two years before his death, he said: "We're getting to the point where they realize I'm 83, so let's be friends, but they've got to stay out of my life if they come in bent and angry because I left their mother I don't know how long ago.A carny magician, Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones), falls in love with one of his admirers, Bess Rahner (Janet Leigh, Psycho). In his final years, Curtis wanted to reconcile with his two eldest daughters. Jamie Lee refused to have anything to do with her father until her twenties but eventually built a cordial but distant relationship. No love was left between them."Ĭurtis would have little involvement with his daughters for most of their lives and then spoke out in frustration about it towards the end of his life: "There was a long time after that when I didn't get along with my daughters, because I didn't see them. There was no Demi and Bruce amicable divorce or joint family vacations for us.
"My mother persevered through it all and survived. Jamie Lee added: "My parents hated each other my whole life.
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