By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

• Paramount Pictures
• Tony Curtis
• Janet Leigh
• Torin Thatcher
• Angela Clarke
• Stefan Schnabel
• Ian Wolfe
• Sig Ruman
• Michael Pate