The Secret Life of Houdini

Release Date: 2010
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Box Office Total: $9,954,531

Synopsis: Based on the book, published in 2006 by Atria Books, that made waves at the time for insinuating that Houdini was a spy for Britain and was asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II's court in pre-revolutionary Russia. The book also portrayed the master escape artist and magician as a debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists, leading to the theory that his death was caused by the spiritual movement as payback.