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. Although Houdini's tricks ar
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. 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.@
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. Althou...
