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Catherine, where Houdini stayed and also the Hotel Catalina where some of the Terror Island Cast members stayed. I then took John and Arthur for a golf cart ride to check out the old pool from the Hotel St. We then returned to the museum so Arthur could play the Houdini pinball machine and see the Houdini exhibit (which featured many items from his collection) for the first time. We all hopped in the golf cart to go pickup the mighty Arthur Moses and John Cox.įirst stop, Strand Theatre building, where Terror Island screened on Friday September 10 in 1920.Ĭaptain Julie gave us a VIP tour of Terror Island shooting locations which are only reachable by boat. I was about to give up and just go to Vons to get something to eat, when I noticed an outdoor bar was serving food, Yes!Īfter a quick lunch, went to beach (where no one was allowed in the water due the sewage pipe leak) and listened to some music before going back to museum to get Julie and her kids. So I decided to go back into town to get something to eat, and that’s when I realized that there was an island wide water outage that closed restaurants and bathrooms all over Avalon. Plans quickly changed after the guy at the beach club told me the patio food bar was closed due to a water leak. I borrowed a golf cart (after Jason Clay made a key magically appear) with plans of having lunch and spending some time on Descanso beach where Houdini attempted a rescue of a wayward boat in the bay. Julie then joined the work party, and we discussed plans for the day. Spent some time with some of Julie Perlin Lee’s amazing staff (Gail Fornasiere, Jessica Zumberge and Patty Salazar) who were all hard at work, looking up information for me.

The exhibition is on view May 5 through October 7, 2018.Īfter checking out the museum gift shop which has some very nice Houdini items for sale, I was met at the docks by Jessica Zumberge from the Catalina Island Museum, who gave me a golf cart ride to the Museum, which is featuring the first ever exhibition about the making of Terror Island. The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions.Friday, June 1, I returned to Avalon Catalina for the First Fridays at the Museum screening of the 1953 film Houdini starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in their outdoor amphitheater. Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent Mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her.

It details his beginnings as a locksmith, up through his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician. The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira and the costume design by Edith Head. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, is by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars then husband-and-wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.