Houdini
â 6.6 ¡ 1953 ¡ 106m ¡ Drama ¡ Romance ¡ History
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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