Do yourself a favor and expand the movie to full-screen mode, by clicking the icon at the lower right corner of each video panel. The first of 10 parts of the movie appears below – to continue watching, simply click the upper left corner screen at the end of each video. the great impostor - tony curtis classic film Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Indeed, the attention to detail in every scene is rapturously mind boggling.
Tony curtis as the great houdini free full#
Some liberties were taken with the real Houdini’s biographical story, but it’s Hollywood, after all – let the show go on 😀įor you Vintage Gawkers, you’ll love the stylized sets, full of velvet curtains, ornate wallpapers, globed gas lamps, old-fashioned posters and corsetted women in extravagant gowns with wide, matching hats. When he escapes underwater, he cannot find the hole cut into the ice, and nearly dies. An especially harrowing scene finds him being lowered in a chained box down into frozen lake waters, when the chain breaks 😦 The box, with Houdini in it, sinks to the bottom of the lake. Curtis appeared in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot with Monroe and Jack Lemmon, and received an Oscar nomination in 1959 for The Defiant Ones, in which he starred with Sidney Poitier. The film progresses through his jobs in vaudeville, a lock factory, and a successful European tour, where Houdini escapes from a prison cell in Scotland Yard. The film was written and directed by Melville Shavelson and features Paul Michael Glaser and Sally Struthers and originally aired on ABC on October 8, 1976. Houdini is instantly attracted to the young girl who chides the ringmaster for whipping the wild man through the cage bars, attempting to stop him from mistreating the poor man.Īfter only a few meetings, the couple marries, and moves in with Houdini’s mother, to whom he was deeply attached. The Great Houdini is a 1976 American made-for-television biographical film which is a fictionalized account of the life of the Hungarian-American escape artist and entertainer Harry Houdini. A group of proper teenaged school girls wearing prim uniforms are ushered past stages displaying various human curiosities, including a ‘wild man’ from Africa ( also Curtis, in costume). Starring a young Tony Curtis as Houdini, and Janet Leigh as his love interest, the story begins in an 1800’s circus-like side-show.
As promised, here’s the 1953 movie we’ve been building up to all week – “ Houdini” in vivid Technicolor majesty.
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