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/ ABC-ABC Circle Films / 1x120 minutes / 8 October 1976
Director: Melville Shavelson / Teleplay: Melville Shavelson / Photography: Arch R Daizell / Editor: John M Woodcock / Music: Peter Matz / Production Design: Tracy Bousman
Period drama. A biographical dramatization of the life and times of the world renowned illusionist and escape artist whose glittering career masked a deep obsession with the occult, culminated by a vow that the woud one day speak from beyond, a promise he made to his wife on his deathbed in 1926. Ruth Gordon won and Emmy Award nomination for her performance
as Houdini’s mother and Glaser performed all his own stunts.
With:- PAUL MICHAEL GLASER as Harry Houdini / Erich Weiss / SALLY STRUTHERS as Bess Houdini / RUGHT GORDON as Cecilia Weiss / VIVIAN VANCE as Minnie / ADRIENNE BARBEAU as Daisy White / BILL BIXBY as Reverend Arthur Ford / JACK CARTER as Theo Weiss / PETER CUSHING as Conan Doyle / NINA FOCH as Reverend Le Veyne / WILFRID HYDE – WHITE as Superintendent Melville / GEOFFREY LEWIS as Dr. Crandon / MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN as Lady Doyle / CLIVE REVILL as Dundas Slater / BARBARA RHOADES as Margery Crandon / JEROME THOR as Conductor / MARILYN BRODNICK as Dorothy Weiss / PATRICK CULLITON as Franz Kukla / RICHARD KENNEDY as Pub Policeman / ELIZABETH E MOOR as Barmaid / JAN STRATTON as Hotel Maid /
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