S.A.M. to Host Screening of Lost Houdini Classic The Grim Game at the 2015 Convention
From release by Bruce Kalver

The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) is bringing Past National President Harry Houdini back to The National Convention by presenting the long-lost Harry Houdini classic movie The Grim Game (1919) in Philadelphia. This film is considered Houdini’s best and was thought to be lost to time until a complete print was recently rediscovered and brought to Turner Classic Movies for restoration. This film features the escape artist and legendary illusionist in one of his few starring role. Only convention registrants will be able to see this film, no outside tickets will be sold.

Houdini was National President of The Society of American Magicians when the film was produced and in 1919, the organizations magazine, M-U-M promoted the movie. Houdini, a sensation in vaudeville and on world tours, starred in just five movies, all released between 1919 and 1923, according to IMDb. Soon after quitting the movie business, he died of peritonitis in 1926.

During the screening at the convention, Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, who own The Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA will be on hand to answer questions about how the film was rediscovered and restored.

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