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Houdini, the movie star, Douris UK Ltd

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videorecording

Houdini, the movie star

videorecording DVD

Douris UK Ltd

450

The master mystery: Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamberTerror Island: A swashbuckling inventor steers his high-tech submarine to a forbidden tropical isle to rescue the father of the woman he lovesThe man from beyond: Howard Hillary is a man frozen in the Arctic. He returns to civilization 100 years later to reclaim the love of his live, reincarnated in the body of a young womanHaldane of the Secret Service: Heath Haldane is an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate a band of counterfeiters within the dark alleys of New York's ChinatownThe grim game: Cameras captured an unplanned incident: two planes colliding in mid-air. The footage was so spectacular that the script was revised to integrate it into the plot

DVD 1: The master mystery (1919 ; color tinted ; 238 min.) / produced for video by Bret Wood ; produced by B.A. Rolfe ; screenplay by Arthur B. Reeve and Charles Logue ; directed by Burton L. King -- DVD 2: Terror Island (1920 ; b&w ; 55 min.) / a Paramount-Artcraft release ; written by Arthur B. Reeve & John Grey ; directed by James Cruze -- The man from beyond (1922 ; color tinted ; 68 min.) / Houdini Picture Corporation ; produced for video by Bret Wood ; written & produced by Harry Houdini ; directed by Burton L. King -- The master mystery (Contains the conclusion of episodes 13-15, continued from DVD 1) -- DVD 3: The grim game (fragment ; 1919 ; color tinted ; 5 min.) / Licensed by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department ; written by Arthur B. Reeve and John Grey ; directed by Irving Willat -- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923 ; color tinted ; 84 min.) / Houdini Picture Corporation ; licensed by Cinema Arts ; produced for video by Bret Wood ; written & directed by Harry Houdini

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