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We're in the final throes of editing our historical novel HOUDINI UNBOUND, soon to be sprung on an unsuspecting public like a suddenly-appearing elephant.
Naturally, we want to know what the competition is doing, or has done. That has led us to some fascinating places, and we don't mean the Tony Curtis movie. The film above, from HOUDINI: A CIRCUS OPERA, is a really high-class production, performed in Amsterdam in 1981. Jerold Norman plays a credible and commanding Houdini. Bess is well played by Roberta Alexander. The film narration starts in Dutch, but don't worry - the opera itself is in English, and you can hear Houdini's words done very convincingly.
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