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This feature-length special, hosted by renowned magician Lance Burton, explores the life and magic of the great escape artist through his most prized possessions--the Chinese Water Torture Cell, the Milkcan, his straitjackets and handcuffs, and lockpicks that were "key" to his handcuff escapes--all revealed to the public for the first time. HOUDINI also unlocks secrets of the man--brash showman, fierce competitor, loyal son and husband. Interviews...
42) Harry Houdini
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Meet Harry Houdini - the most famous magician of all time. Harry performed many daring and astounding tricks still talked about today, including dangerous underwater escapes. Harry started his life in poverty but as a child got his own trapeze and performed for the neighborhood kids, calling himself "Prince of the Air." He went on to become one of the most famous people in the world, performing in front of huge crowds and making six movies. With level-appropriate...
44) Little Houdini
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Based on the real story of the world-renowned magician, this animated television special follows young Harry as he pursues his dream to become a magician.
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Houdini & Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
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Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, aided by the famous magician Harry Houdini, plots to unmask a phony spirit advisor attempting to relieve the boy's great-aunt of her fortune.
47) Houdini
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High above the city street, Harry Houdini hangs by his ankles. A madman's straitjacket binds his torso and arms. He'll never get out of this one alive. But somehow he does. The only bonds Harry Houdini never wished to escape were his marriage bonds to his cherished wife and assistant Bess. From his early career struggles to his crusade against spiritual charlatans, from the Water Torture Cell to other signature feats, from the fate he could not escape...
52) Nevermore
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to search for a literary-minded killer It is 1923 and a beautiful young woman has just been found outside a tenement, bones crushed, head ripped from her shoulders. A few stories above, her squalid apartment has been ransacked, and twenty-dollar gold pieces litter the floor. The window frame is smashed. She seems to have been hurled from the building by a beast of impossible strength, and the only witness...
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"YOU are America's first celebrity superhero, Harry Houdini, "The King of Cuffs." You have enchanted audiences across the United States with your death-defying live escapes ... But one follower of your act has a serious request: with all of your sleight of hand and feats of strength and intelligence, will you, Harry Houdini, become a spy to learn information abroad and help the United States?"--
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"Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted seances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he...
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Houdini & Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 2
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
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While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are also on board, finds himself involved in another dangerous adventure as he and Houdini try to find the man responsible for attempting to assassinate another passenger--President Theodore Roosevelt.
60) Houdini
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The incredible but tragically short career of magician Harry Houdini whose tricks defied explanation and safety.