Houdini

Houdini was a complete artist and an inexhaustible innovator. In addition to his spectacular escapes, he mastered the art of stage illusionism to perfection: he was a great propagandist and a master of publicity and knew how to take advantage of the emerging power of the media, promoting his name better than any other magician of his time. He also starred in silent films, was an aviation pioneer, editor, writer and became an active militant against the spiritualist movement after the death ...