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I was met at the docks by Jessica Zumberge from the Catalina Island Museum, who gave me a golf cart ride to the Museum, which is featuring the first ever exhibition about the making of Terror Island.
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#Houdini 1953 movie
There are other burps and fabrications that make for a great movie but aren't real. I mean it ends with the way many people think he died (which is the result of this film) when the Chinese Water Torture trick went wrong. Inspired by the film I started to read about Houdini and I quickly found out how wrong Hollywood can get it. If you wanted to know where I learned that Hollywood made stuff up about real people it was this film. Quite frankly until I really studied Houdini I thought this film was the absolute tops. There is great magic tricks,humor and just enough drama to keep it interesting. Tony Curtis is wonderful as Houdini and Janet Leigh is great as his wife. Its entertaining in the way that only old Hollywood films can be. Nominally the film is the life of Houdini from birth to death and it charts his rise to fame and fortune. Just that any connection to reality is purely coincidental. Outside of that the film is pretty much fictional. The Tony Curtis lead bio of Houdini has some basis in reality, It has characters representing Houdini, Bess (his wife) and Houdini’s mother and it has him performing magic in the US and Europe.