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Harry Houdini was a star of movies in the silent film era of the 1920's. Make no mistake about it he was a film star and his movies allowed people throughout the world that had not seen him perform a chance to see him in action. He made five movies all of which played in the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre area. His first three films made quite a bit of money, but he was cheated out of his royalties and had to sue get some of it. He then went into his own film show production company, but lost money on the venture, due in part to the fact that the movie companies were buying up the vaudeville theaters and created a monopoly that made it difficult for independant producers to get their films distributed. This was later broken up by the courts, but not in Houdini's era.
Included here are ads from the Regent, Strand and Poli Theaters in Scranton. "Terror Island," Grim Game," and Haldane of the Secret Service." His other movies were "The Master Mystery," which was a fifteen part serial, which featured the first robot ever in film film history, and "Haldane of the Secret Service." The Grim Game featured a jump from the wings of one plane to another. The film contained the first in-air plane collision ever recorded by a movie camera, and "Terror Island." Another ad depicts the showing of "Haldane of the Secret Service," at The Poli Theater where his show had headlined live. It was the first movie with a "secret service" plot, Houdini being the "James Bond" character! In "The Man From Beyond," he did a daring rescue stunt on the brink of Niagara Falls. He also duplicated some of his escape stunts in the films.
Directed by James Cruze
Writing credits John Grey (story), Arthur B. Reeve (story)
Starring:
Harry Houdini....Harry Harper
Jack Brammall....Starkey
Lila Lee....Beverly West
Wilton Taylor....Job Mourdant
Eugene Pallette... Guy Mourdant
Edward Brady....Captain Black
Frank Bonner....Chief Bakaida
Ted Duncan....First Officer Murphy
F.A. Turner....Mr. West
Rosemary Theby....Stella Mourdant
Resolution : 480x352
Video Codec : DivX
FPS : 29,97
BitRate : 1365 Kbps
Quality : 0,28 b/px
Audio Codec : MPEG 1 or 2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 44100 Hz
BitRate : 128 Kbps
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