Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Houdini '53 at 70: The competition

Continuing our 70th Anniversary celebration of Paramount's classic Houdini biopic starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

Besides Houdini, what else could you have seen 70 years ago this week? Here are several newspaper ads showing the competition for your perusal.


Choices, choices! You can see a list of all movies released in 1953 as well as the top grossing HERE.

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3 comments:

  1. Fascinating to see the movies that came out that year and how theaters featured film of the Queen's coronation...newsreels still attracting ticket buyers before TV news made them outmoded. Can you tell in the list of movie grosses where was HOUDINI? Number 15, number 87 or ____? Grossing $______ ?

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    1. According to imdb, it made $1.8 million. Not sure where that would land it in the rankings.

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  2. Interesting that Titanic was out there. And it still is after that submersible tragedy.

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