Death Defying Acts(2007)
Love is inescapable
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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Mary McGarvie
Harry Houdini
Sugarman
Benji McGarvie
Leith Romeo
Leith Romeo's wife
Mr. Robertson
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