6.4Summary
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
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- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
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Not for laughs.
Cast
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Paul Michael GlaserHarry Houdini
Sally StruthersBess Houdini
Ruth GordonCecilia Weiss
Vivian VanceMinnie
Adrienne BarbeauDaisy White
Bill BixbyReverend Ford
Jack CarterTheo Weiss
Peter CushingConan Doyle
Nina FochReverend Le Veyne
Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteSuperintendent Melville
Geoffrey LewisDr. Crandon
Maureen O'SullivanLady Conan Doyle
Clive RevillDundas Slater
Barbara RhoadesMargery Crandon
Patrick CullitonFranz Kukla
Karin CollisonBarmaid
Jerome ThorConductor
Crew
- Directed by
- Melville Shavelson
- Written by
- Peter Benchley, Melville Shavelson
- Music by
- Peter Matz
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Facts
October 8, 1976 · 1 h 36 min · NR
- Released
- October 8, 1976
- Runtime
- 1 h 36 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Content
- Suicide Themes
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- English
- Made in
- United States
Tropes
Scenery Censor, Flashback Effects, The Power of Hate +9