Later, at the factory, Harry locks himself inside one of the big safes, determined to make an escape. Bess then persuades Harry to give her his prize, a single, round-trip boat ticket to Europe, so that she can cash it in for a down payment on a house. Afterward, however, Fante advises Harry to "drop it," noting that Johann Von Schweger, a German magician, retired at the height of his career after performing a similar feat, fearful of his own talents. Harry accepts the challenge and, through intense concentration, extricates himself from the jacket, greatly impressing Fante.
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On Halloween, Harry and Bess attend a special magicians' dinner at the Astor Hotel, during which magician Fante offers a prize to anyone who can free himself from a straightjacket. After Bess convinces Harry to take a job in a locksmith factory, Harry works as a lock tester while fantasizing about escaping from one of the factory's large safes. Bess becomes Harry's onstage partner, touring the country with him, but soon grows tired of the low pay and grueling schedule. Bess admits her attraction, and soon after, the two appear at Harry's mother's house, newly married. When Bess shows up to watch Harry perform two more times, however, he corners her. Harry flirts with the unsuspecting Bess during his act, but she flees from him in a panic. Although Houdini's tricks are achieved through his marvelous physical dexterity and innate sleight-of-hand, he courted death with the hazardous illusions he performed and his compulsive quest to make contact with the spirit world.In the 1890s, young Harry Houdini is performing with a Coney Island carnival as Bruto, the Wild Man, when Bess, a naive onlooker, tries to protect him from the blows of Schultz, his "trainer." Harry then appears as magician The Great Houdini and, spotting Bess in the audience, invites her on stage. The amazing career of master magician Harry Houdini is presented from his beginnings with a carnival "wild man" act to his emergence as an internationally-acclaimed illusionist, From his dramatic escape from a locked safe under the frozen Detroit River to an even more improbable one from a locked cell in Scotland Yard, he never failed to please and astound his audiences. AKA: Houdini de grote tovenaar (Belgium), Sihirbazlar kralı (Turkey), Houdini, Houdini (Australia), Houdini, O Grande Mágico (Portugal, Portuguese Republic), Houdini, der König des Variete (Austria), El gran Houdini (Mexico), El gran Houdini (Argentina), Houdini - suuri taikuri (Finland), Houdini (United States of America), Houdini, der König des Variete, Le grand Houdini (Belgium), Houdini, o vasilefs ton magon (Greece), Houdini (Canada), Houdini le grand magicien (France, French Republic), Houdini le grand magicien (Belgium), 魔術の恋 (Japan), Houdini, o Homem Miraculoso (Brazil), Houdini - utbrytarkungen (Sweden), Houdini (Austria), Houdini (Sweden), Houdini, kahleitten kuningas (Finland), El gran Houdini (Spain), Houdini, der König des Variete (Germany), Manden uden nerver (Denmark), Il mago Houdini (Italy), Гудини.Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke.Writers: Philip Yordan, Harold Kellock.
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