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The jewel in the crown however is the fantastic performance by Vivian Vance as the nurse and indispensable factotum who actually both introduces the drama and finishes it, in a very clearly surveyable interesting and skillful composition to explain the extraordinary life of one of the greatest magicians ever.As former San Francisco residents, we’ve done 80+ in-person San Francisco Bay Area escape rooms and will be keeping this list up-to-date with our best escape room recommendations. The domestic family scenes and the one in Budapest are priceless for very convincing insights, especially the Jewish wedding scene at home. All the tricks with his constantly risking his life twice a day ('and thrice on Saturdays') is all too well known, so not more than necessarily much celluloid is spent on all that, while the drama is his personal relationships. The spiritualistic part of the story though gives Doyle the right, who survived Houdini with five years, and this is actually the most interesting part of his story. The development of the relationship between Houdini and Doyle is true to history, they actually became almost enemies after having started as true friends understanding each other, while Houdini never could accept Doyle's weakness for elves.

The best scene is the first London scene, when Houdini accidentally meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter Cushing, not very like the real Doyle) and the director of Scotland Yard (the old incorrigible Wilfred Hyde-White) with consequences. Another outrageously ignored, underrated and neglected biopic excellently staged on film with great performances everywhere, especially by Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers and Ruth Gordon as the three main characters in the complicated relationships between son, mother and wife, the two latter having problems with each other, the wife coming between the mother and son and the mother always intruding in his marriage even after her death.

The great houdini escape room