Death Defying Acts
Love is inescapable
Overview
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $8,380,329
- Production
- BBC Film, Australian Film Finance Corporation, Myriad Pictures, Zephyr Films, MacGowan Films
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Gillian Armstrong
- Writers
- Tony Grisoni,Brian Ward
- Cinematography
- Haris Zambarloukos
- Composer
- Cezary Skubiszewski
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John Chard
July 7, 2014
Houdini Affairs of the Heart and Head. Death Defying Acts is directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward. It stars Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan. Music is by Cezary Skubiszewski and cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos. Not a biopic of Harry Houdini, but an episode in his life, Death Defying Acts (a bum steer of a title) is lukewarm across the board. Story charts the years after the death of Houdini’s mother, where he travels…
Wuchak
May 11, 2025
**_Part factual, part fictional accounting of Houdini’s final months in 1926_** The showman (Guy Pearce) visits Edinburgh, Scotland, where he meets a psychic woman and her daughter, who are out to con him (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Saoirse Ronan). Timothy Spall is on hand as Harry’s protective tour manager. "Death Defying Acts” (2007) is not a biopic of Houdini, but rather historical fiction, aka ‘faction.’ Assuming Harry was faithful to his beloved Bessie, it’s offensive to have him romanc…