Later, an escape from a straight jacket at a magician’s gathering opens the door for Harry to re-enter the world of magic, performing in Europe. There he becomes intrigued by trying to escape from being locked inside one. So, for a short time Harry goes to work at a company that makes safes. Things aren’t going well for them financially, though. Over the next few weeks he encounters Bess several more times and before we know it the two are married and performing as a team. One night he spots a lovely young woman in the audience named Bess (Janet Leigh) who he, of course, makes a participant in his act. Tony Curtis stars as Harry Houdini, who we first meet as a struggling magician working in cheap carnival. George Pal served as producer on 1953’s Houdini. It’s not a scary movie, per se, but it is a biopic about a performer who definitely sought to scare his audience a bit. I’m pretty sure that I saw a portion of today’s movie on that show when I was a kid…and it terrified me. The kindly host Frazier Thomas, who also was on Bozo’s Circus, would introduce the films sitting in a big chair in front of a fireplace. ![]() Growing up in the Chicago area we had a program that aired on Sunday afternoons called Family Classics.
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