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The Grim Game. The Grim Game is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Harry Houdini and Ann Forrest. [1] The basic plotline serves as a showcase for Houdini's talent as an escapologist, stunt performer and aviator. As the story unfolds, a series of Houdini's trademark set-piece stunts and escapes are performed.
The Grim Game: Directed by Irvin Willat. With Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips. Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Irvin Willat
- 1919-10-12
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Grim Game, The (1919) -- (Movie Clip) Circumstantial Evidence Evil rich old uncle Cameron (Thomas Jefferson) has summoned his doctor (Tully Marshall), who covets his ward Mary (Ann Forrest), to discuss an inheritance scheme, while she is meantime visited by trespassing reporter nephew Hanford (Harry Houdini), whom she prefers, in The Grim Game ...
- Irvin Willat, Roy H. Marshall
- Harry Houdini
The Grim Game (1919) Movie Info Synopsis An accused killer (Harry Houdini) uses his amazing skills as an escape artist and magician to flee police custody and search for the men who framed him.
- Mystery & Thriller
- Irvin Willat
- Dennis Schwartz
- Harry Houdini
The Grim Game. An inspired, indefatigable, and shameless self-promoter and, not coincidentally, one of the most famous people in the world in the early decades of the twentieth century, Harry Houdini was a natural for the movies. Both he and the new medium trafficked in illusions. Sometimes that worked in Houdini’s favor while on other ...
The fact is that the "The Grim Game" was considered lost. Actually the only existing copy of the 71-minute feature was lovingly preserved by a private party (Larry Weeks) in Pennsylvania. In 2014, after financing by Turner Classic Movies (TCM), it was restored with a new music score; it was first televised in 2015.
