by Turner Home Ent
Sales Rank: 20658
Price: $14.98
The life and times of history's most famous escape artist and magician, Harry Houdini.
Viewer Reviews This is a TV movie covering the career, life and afterlife of the illusionist Harry Houdini/Ehrich Weiss. It is a romanticized skeletal treatment, covering the basics of the man (raised in poverty, self taught magician, life long mother issues, medium debunker) without any real depth or showing anything new. It is a well done enough production, recreating some of Houdini's daring feats, and the acting is decent (and Johnathon Schaech certainly looks fit enough to pull off Houdini's escapes and high tolerance for pain) but ultimately it is a frame without a portrait, non revealing of the Ehrich behind the Harry.
Favorite Line: "I fell in love with Ehrich Weiss; I put up with Harry Houdini."
