The Houdini Exposure (2011)

Actors: Gareth Nicholls (director), Gareth Nicholls (writer), Gareth Nicholls (actor), Natalie Wilson (actress), Natalie Wilson (actress), Philip Holyman (writer), Philip Holyman (director), Huey McEvoy (composer),

Plot: Harry is the greatest magician there has ever been, if you believe the hype. He certainly believes it himself. He's also a man on a mission - to test the claims of mediums across the world. He desperately wants to believe them, too...but he knows every trick in the book. He should be good at spotting a fake. After all... He used to be one. Fuelled by guilt and grief, Harry launches a moral crusade which tears his friendships apart, threatens to destroy his marriage and sees death threats rain down on him from his enemies in this world - and in the world beyond. Little Earthquake lifts the lid on this milk churn of mysteries, as the King of Showmen takes to the stage for the biggest reveal of his life. Who will you believe? The Medium? Or the Magician?

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: If you could speak to the spirits of the dead, what would you ask them? If the spirits of the dead could speak, what would they say?

1000 Ways to Lie (2010)

Actors: Thom Beers (producer), Victoria De Mare (actress), Thom Beers (director), Guin Dill (miscellaneous crew), Robin Zamora (actor), Deanna Meske (actress), Angela Landis (actress), Kent Kasper (actor), Kiri Stevens (actor), Peter Gilroy (actor), Jesse Lewis IV (actor), Read MacGuirtose (actor), Dale Basescu (actor), Steve Turner (actor), Caleb Pearson (actor),

Genres: Reality-TV,

Houdini (1998)

Actors: David Warner (actor), Pen Densham (producer), Ron Perlman (actor), Curt Lowens (actor), Rhea Perlman (actress), Grace Zabriskie (actress), George Segal (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Mark Ruffalo (actor), Paul Sorvino (actor), Johnathon Schaech (actor), Pen Densham (writer), John Watson (producer),

Plot: This biographical film tells the story of Harry Houdini, from his birth and immigration to the U.S., through his career in show business as first an escape artist and then a seance debunker, and finally his tragic death. We also see his relationship with wife Bess.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, escape-artist, illusion, magic, medium, seance
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: He made a life out of cheating death

The Great Houdini (1976)

Actors: Bill Bixby (actor), Jack Carter (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Paul Michael Glaser (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Clive Revill (actor), Adrienne Barbeau (actress), Nina Foch (actress), Ruth Gordon (actress), Maureen O'Sullivan (actress), Sally Struthers (actress), Melville Shavelson (writer), Peter Matz (composer), Melville Shavelson (director),

Genres: Biography, Drama,

Houdini (1953)

Actors: Eric Alden (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Peter Baldwin (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Fred Essler (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Edward Clark (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Len Hendry (actor),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: 1920s, barker, based-on-book, berlin-germany, brooklyn-new-york-city, buzzsaw, carnival, character-name-in-title, charlatan, coney-island
Genres: Biography, Drama,

Quotes:

Harry Houdini: I hadn't prepared anything for tonight, but perhaps I have something that will amuse you. So if you'll get a couple of broomsticks, I'll get my wife - and we'll see what we can do.

Bess Houdini: [to Houdini] Audiences are never satisfied. They love you for th moment you please them.

Harry Houdini: It'll be the most dangerous thing I've ever done.::Bess Houdini: And the most dangerous!::Harry Houdini: Bess, people aren't going to stand in line and watch me pull rabbits out of a hat.::Bess Houdini: Why? Why must every act you do be flirting with death?::Harry Houdini: Because it's the only act that'll hold an audience spellbound. People fall asleep at the opera, but they stay wide awake at the bullfights because ther's one man defying death down in that arena. You take this out of my act and I'm nothing!::Bess Houdini: You keep it in and we're both nothing!