Once you select Rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to. Given those caveats (common to all Hollywood bio-pics of the Golden Age), this is an enjoyable movie featuring a winning performance by Curtis-a handsome matinee idol in his first starring role in a major Hollywood drama-and spunky support by Leigh, his real-life wife and a major star in her own right at the time. Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini. And while Houdini died from a ruptured appendix in the aftermath of a failed stunt, he did not die onstage as portrayed in the film. The charming Curtis is here flamboyant and self-promoting but essentially generous and good-hearted, while the real-life Houdini was arrogant and vindictive. While the professional accomplishments portrayed in director George Marshall's Houdini are true (including his obsession with spiritualists and his campaign to expose frauds and con artists posing as mediums), much of the personal and biographical details are completely fictionalized for dramatic purposes. To this day, HOUDINI remains one of star Tony Curtis' most well remembered and well regarded films. Houdini makes his reputation by escaping from a Scotland Yard prison and becomes famous for making death-defying escapes in full view of the public.
In this version, Houdini is the only son of a widowed European Jew, meeting Bess while playing a wild man in a carnival sideshow (a showbiz version of "meet-cute"). Tony Curtis portrays magician Harry Houdini in the 1953 Hollywood movie Houdini Picture: AP From the movie Some Like It Hot shows US actors Jack Lemmon. Tony Curtis stars as Harry Houdini, vaudeville magician turned world famous escape artist, and Janet Leigh is his assistant and wife Bess in this splashy, colorful 1953 bio-pic that takes liberties with the truth.
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