It was most enjoyable and in a 106 minutes I was not expecting for a long Houdini biography and it isn't. So the film is fun especially the early part with the magician at the fair although as he starts to escape from handcuffs and then maybe the magic becomes real escapes. As the acts are performed around the high building and in the icy river they become an endurance and I'm sure he went on and on although I would have preferred just tricks. The story continues after his mother dies and he is keen to check-out mediums, were they up to fraudulent tricks like he used to do. Tony Curtis is splendid here maybe not quite as good as he was in Trapeze (1956) or especially with Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and later The Boston Strangler (1968). Janet Leigh, his wife, was good in this and later she would do many others like, Touch of Evil (1958) and Psycho (1960).
Review of Houdini
