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Article: Get out of that! A new TV series unlocks the final mystery of HARRY HOUDINI - and exposes Hitler's chilling last secrets. By JULIAN CHAMPKIN.(Television Program Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2004
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Byline: JULIAN CHAMPKIN
Harry Houdini jumped off bridges into icy water, handcuffed and manacled to heavy iron weights. He was locked into a bronze coffin, which was lowered into a swimming pool, where he stayed for an hour and a half. He was locked, nightly, onstage, into his famous Chinese Water Torture Cell - lowered headfirst into a tank, feet held firmly in stocks, from which he was expected to escape, unaided, in the minute or two before the air in his lungs gave out.
Houdini was the greatest escapologist the world has ever seen. No lock, it was said, could hold him.
He was put, chained as usual, into a stone prison cell with a steel ...