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When I was a kid in the unhurried 50s, Houdini was mild THE man. Flee artist, illusionist and master magician, Harry Houdini fired our youthful imaginations almost as no other – even though we had almost never seen him except in stale stills or aged newsreels. We certainly never heard him assure, but had only read avidly about his past exploits.
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Now, Kino International is giving Houdini assist to his legions of devoted fans by releasing a three-DVD region that includes ALL of the surviving calm movie films of “Houdini – the actor,” as well as footage of escapes and an audio clip of the master’s suppose!
More than mere entertainment, this astonishing collection is truly an historical presentation of Houdini’s film career.
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By 1919, Houdini was known internationally as an unparalleled master magician. Having conquered the stage, he region out to do the same thing to the “unique” medium of the day – the movie. Houdini appeared in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers, which he performed the majority of the stunts himself in all of his films.
This fantastic boxed site represents the first time that these images (except for “The Man from Beyond”) have ever been released on DVD, and may very well be the first time a lot of fans have seen these amazing productions in more than 75 years!!
Kino International culled everything it could pick up from film archives and private collections to get and remaster this incredible material. It includes all of Houdini’s surviving mute films as an actor, rare footage of accurate handcuff and straitjacket escapes, as well as a wealth of historical information. It also includes a serial in which may have been the first-ever robot on hide to be a threat.
Included in this DVD station is: The Master Mystery (1919, 238m, Color Tinted), a cliff-hanging serial in which Justice Department Agent Quentin Locke (Houdini) must investigate a grand cartel protected by a robot (referred to as “The Automation”) and using a gas weapon “The Madagascar Madness”; Fright Island (1920, 55m, B&W), which involves an inventor of a submarine (Houdini), a damsel in wound, her captured father, hostile natives on an island, a family of villains and some shipwrecked treasure; The Man From Beyond (1922, 68m, Color Tinted), which includes a jail type hasten, a fist fight with Houdini winning of course, and a sensational scene with Houdini swimming the rapids at Niagara Falls; Haldane of the Secret Service (1923, 84m, Color Tinted), Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage; and The Grim Game (Fraction, 1919, 5m, Color Tinted), a film that featured a famed jump from the wings of one plane to another, and the first in-air plane collision ever recorded by a movie camera.
Special Features include filmed records of Houdini escapes (ca. 1907-23) ; an audio recording of Houdini speaking (1914) ; Excerpts from the NY Censor Board files; Slippery Jim, a 1910 Houdini-inspired comedy; and the illusion Metamorphosis performed by Houdini’s beloved brother Hardeen, and others.
Beyond recommended!!
Kino’s current plot HOUDINI: THE MOVIE STAR is a three disc collection of impartial about everything that Houdini did which detached survives. HH made 5 films over a 5 year period (1919-1923) . His first exertion THE MASTER MYSTERY is a serial which survives mostly intact. It’s also a rare opportunity to glance Mae Marsh’s older sister Marguerite in action and she’s fair qualified given the material.
Of the other four only his last anxiety HALDANE OF THE SECRET SERVICE is fully complete. 1919′s THE GRIM GAME has only about 5 minutes but it contains an sincere midair collision which was left in the film. THE MAN FROM BEYOND is Houdini’s best known film and the 16mm copy here is worthy better than any of the previous video incarnations. The yarn of a man revived after being frozen for 100 years has been reworked many times and is never less than animated. The highlight of the collection is Scare ISLAND. Although missing reels 3 and 4 it has the advantage of high production values (it was made at Paramount), a quality director in James Cruze (THE COVERED WAGON), and a cast of strong supporting players led by Eugene Pallette (he was Friar Tuck in Errol Flynn’s ROBIN HOOD) whose career stretched into the 1940s.
The station comes with lots of extras including dependable clips of Houdini performing and an audio recording of him advertising his act from 1914. As a performer Houdini was charismatic but his films suffer from the same plots and stunts archaic over and over again. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen em’ all. Nevertheless this is a distinguished section of celluloid history and is certainly worth having for the discriminating collector or still film lover. Unbiased don’t inquire something “magical”.
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