Continuing my scene by scene dissection of Paramount's classic 1953 biopic Houdini. Last time we joined Harry and Bess on their Wedding Night. Today we hit the road...
Chapter 6: Miner's Hall
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- Home
- Life
- Escapes
- Magic
- Movies
- Houdini's Movies
- Les merveilleux exploits de Houdini à Paris (1909)
- The Master Mystery (1918)
- The Grim Game (1919)
- Terror Island (1920)
- The Man From Beyond (1922)
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)
- Velvet Fingers (1925-26)
- Medium Well Done (1937)
- Religious Racketeers (1938)
- Houdini Picture Corp.
- Film Developing Corp.
- Filming locations
- Unmade Movies
- Deconstructing Houdini '53
- Spiritualism
- People
- Beatrice Houdini
- Theo Hardeen
- Cecelia Weiss
- Mayer Samuel Weiss
- Jim Collins
- Franz Kukol
- Martin Beck
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Margery
- J. Gordon Whitehead
- Edward Saint
- Jacob Hyman
- Leopold Weiss
- Carrie Gladys Weiss
- Bernard M.L. Ernst
- Charmian London
- Jess Willard
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Sherlock Holmes
- Assistants
- Imitators
- Other magicians
- Media
- Full Bibliography
- By Houdini
- Biography
- Fiction
- Foreign
- For Kids
- Methods
- Wild About Harry Bookshelf
- Houdini His Life Story (1928)
- Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959)
- Houdini The Untold Story (1969)
- The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (1993)
- Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1996)
- The Secret Life of Houdini (2006)
- The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini (2012)
- The Witch of Lime Street (2015)
- The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (2019)
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This series of commentaries on this film have been a delight to read through! Makes me want to take another crack at watching it. [Didn't care for it's corniness and far-out aspects of the plot the first time I saw it].
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth! Yeah, you should give it another try. There's much to love here for a Houdini fan like yourself. :)
DeleteTony Curtis in a wife beater t-shirt. Harry wore one in Terror Island. They both looked good in them.
ReplyDeleteHa! I never thought about that.
DeleteYou can do a post with a side by side photo comparison of each guy in his wife beater.
DeleteSo many cool props in the magic act scene....that huge silk scarf...so cool.
ReplyDeleteI believe Curtis did the Stack of Fishbowls production in the saloon scene. Possibly originated by Jack Gwynne? Another Houdini connection there.
DeletePart of the fun of this movie is seeing all this beautiful magic apparatus from the '50s.
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