The Man from Beyond

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Harry Houdini in The Man from Beyond (1922)

Un homme qui a été gelé dans les glaces de l'Arctique pendant 100 ans revient à la civilisation pour retrouver son amour perdu.Un homme qui a été gelé dans les glaces de l'Arctique pendant 100 ans revient à la civilisation pour retrouver son amour perdu.Un homme qui a été gelé dans les glaces de l'Arctique pendant 100 ans revient à la civilisation pour retrouver son amour perdu.

Director
- Burton L. King
Writers
- Harry Houdini
- Coolidge Streeter
Stars

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5,4/10

349

MA NOTE

Director
- Burton L. King
Writers
- Harry Houdini
- Coolidge Streeter
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
As part of the film's promotion, Houdini challenged any producer to film a "greater thrill than the Rescue Scene at the Brink of Niagara Falls," offering to pay $5,000 if they succeeded, as announced in the 20 Oct 1922 Variety.

Citations
Dr. Crawford Strange: Hillary clings tenaciously to his theory that he and Felice loved each other in a former life. Only a rank materialist like me would remain skeptical.
François Duval: Our personal beliefs are of no importance. The great teachers of the Earth, Zoroatser down to Moses and Christ, those who have made civilizaion possible, have taught the immortality and progression of the soul... Reincarnation!

Connexions
Edited into Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)

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Commentaire en vedette

6/10

Odd fantasy romance starring Harry Houdini...

...where he plays Howard Hillary, who has been frozen aboard a ship in the arctic for a hundred years. Some explorers find him, thaw him out and wake him up, and try to reintroduce him to society. Howard is obsessively in love with Felicia (Jane Connelly), but she's been dead for a century. He becomes convinced that she has been reincarnated in the modern age, and he's determined to find her and reignite their love. He also gets entangled with people trying to swindle a fortune. Also featuring Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery, Luis Alberni, Yale Benner, and Nita Naldi.

Frozen suspended animation and reincarnation are strange topics to blend together, but with Houdini's interest in fringe theories it makes more sense. This is the first of the great performer's films that I've seen, and it is rather flatly filmed by director Burton L. King. The big finale at Niagara Falls is good, though. Houdini had appeared in two other films and a serial before this, and would make one more film this same year, before his tragic death in 1926.