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Houdini' death defying acts, Film Finance Corporation Australia, BBC Films, the UK Film Council and Myriad Pictures present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office, a MacGowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films and Zephyr Films production of a film by Gillian Armstrong ; produced by Chris Curling and Marian MacGowan ; written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward ; directed by Gillian Armstrong

Label
Houdini' death defying acts, Film Finance Corporation Australia, BBC Films, the UK Film Council and Myriad Pictures present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office, a MacGowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films and Zephyr Films production of a film by Gillian Armstrong ; produced by Chris Curling and Marian MacGowan ; written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward ; directed by Gillian Armstrong
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG; for some sensuality, thematic material, language, violent content and smoking
Main title
Houdini' death defying acts
Medium
videorecording : DVD
Responsibility statement
Film Finance Corporation Australia, BBC Films, the UK Film Council and Myriad Pictures present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office, a MacGowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films and Zephyr Films production of a film by Gillian Armstrong ; produced by Chris Curling and Marian MacGowan ; written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward ; directed by Gillian Armstrong
Runtime
97
Summary
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his career
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Death defying acts, [videorecording : DVD]