

It details his beginnings as a locksmith, up through his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician. The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira and the costume design by Edith Head. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, is by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars then husband-and-wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
