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مسلسل Houdini مترجم - Episode 1
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00:00:01Eric, can you hear me?
00:00:12In one way or another, we all want to escape.
00:00:20When ordinary life shackles us, we need to get away.
00:00:25Get away from boredom, from pain.
00:00:30From fear.
00:00:33But not me.
00:00:35Fear is how I know I'm alive.
00:00:40Unlike other people, I don't escape life.
00:00:47I escape death.
00:00:50Hell of a way to make a living.
00:01:00Come back.
00:01:01Love the fall of war.
00:01:11I'm a vampire.
00:01:17I'm a vampire.
00:01:21I'm an evil who exists.
00:01:22I'm an evil savior.
00:01:22I'm an evil savior.
00:01:23I'm a vampire.
00:01:40They say when you're gonna die, your whole life flashes before your eyes.
00:01:47My name is Eric Weiss, but no one's called me that in a long time.
00:01:53I can escape from almost anything.
00:01:56Handcuffs, straight jackets, you name it.
00:01:58But the one thing I can't seem to escape from is me.
00:02:05Harry? Are you there, Harry?
00:02:12Harry?
00:02:17Can you hear me?
00:02:25I'm the great Houdini!
00:02:32Harry?
00:02:33Harry?
00:02:35Harry?
00:02:45Harry?
00:02:49Harry?
00:02:56Harry!
00:04:14Up until then, my wife Bess and I performed in a two-bit magic act on the back roads of
00:04:19America.
00:04:20You booked us into a brothel.
00:04:23Let's go.
00:04:26We're not doing this.
00:04:27They hired us.
00:04:27Well, I'm on hiring us.
00:04:29Come on, let's go.
00:04:30Guys.
00:04:30Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:04:31Ladies and gentlemen, the great Houdini will escape from this trunk, confined by these handcuffs.
00:04:40Yeah.
00:04:42His handcuffs.
00:04:43Fake.
00:04:46Well, if I had a pair of cuffs from these premises, I would happily...
00:04:51Oh, there you go, magic man.
00:04:53Hey.
00:04:55No, you do.
00:05:06May I ask how it is that you came to possess me?
00:05:09I'm a cop.
00:05:12Never mind the trunk.
00:05:16Let's see you get out of these.
00:05:39Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:05:41Let's go.
00:06:15You mean like this?
00:06:19I'll be damned.
00:06:25At that moment, I was no longer just a common magician.
00:06:29I became something else.
00:06:31An escape artist.
00:06:36So I came up with a shtick that seemed to impress a crowd.
00:07:00But if I did it without any clothes...
00:07:02Well, then folks really went nuts.
00:07:44You been drinking, honey?
00:07:46One glass.
00:07:49You got whiskey, Brett.
00:07:51Why is he making such a big deal up everything?
00:07:58Oh, Larry.
00:08:00Yes, babe?
00:08:03We've been at this for two years.
00:08:07You ever think maybe it's time to pack it in?
00:08:09Honey, I want you to listen to me.
00:08:11I'm not going back to piecework in a necktie sweatshop.
00:08:15Or be a locksmith.
00:08:19Not gonna live like my old man.
00:08:22Like I was never here.
00:08:26I love my father.
00:08:31He was nobody.
00:08:34I'm not gonna be like him.
00:08:37Just disappear.
00:08:42Not unless a million people are watching.
00:08:46As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to escape.
00:08:51Help!
00:08:53My brother Dash and I would get away whenever we could to check out the traveling shows that came to
00:08:58Appleton.
00:09:07These will make appetizing treats for my dogs.
00:09:11Now, I forewarned that things could get messy.
00:09:18Dash couldn't look.
00:09:19For me, I was hooked.
00:09:22Mesmerized by the illusion.
00:09:25Now, I will require some assistance from the audience.
00:09:28How about you, young man?
00:09:30Me?
00:09:32Yes, please, come up.
00:09:35Now, if you'll just pull this table with me.
00:09:38Okay.
00:09:39It's a very delicate heart.
00:09:42Oh, I think she's dead.
00:09:45Why don't you give her a tickle?
00:09:46Why don't you give her a tickle?
00:09:48Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:09:50Thank heavens.
00:09:51Pull yourself together.
00:09:53One, two, three.
00:09:55Goalá.
00:09:59And a force for my younger sister.
00:10:02And suddenly, just like that, I was somebody.
00:10:05A boy that knows no fear.
00:10:08I was going somewhere.
00:10:09An illusion was my ticket.
00:10:50Mama, Mama!
00:10:55Look what I got, Mama.
00:10:58Thank you. It's real.
00:11:01Look, I got another one.
00:11:03I learned it. It's magic.
00:11:06Mama, shake me.
00:11:08Shake me?
00:11:09Hotter, Mama. Hotter.
00:11:12Shake me. Hotter.
00:11:13If not for my mother, I would have gone nowhere.
00:11:16Money for nothing, Mom.
00:11:19One day they'll be cold, Mom.
00:11:21Erich, mein Herzig.
00:11:23But she always believed in me.
00:11:38There's over.
00:11:39What's on Erich, Rob?
00:11:46Erich, you're a dream!
00:11:48What's your name?
00:11:49It's Halloween, Papa.
00:11:51You're supposed to give him something.
00:11:52Naked in mind, Stieb.
00:11:58Erich, Papa's going to say the brachot.
00:12:00Come down.
00:12:03Take that off before Papa sees it.
00:12:05A magician is not really a magician.
00:12:07He's an actor, pretending to be a magician.
00:12:10An actor!
00:12:11Erich.
00:12:12Fifty years ago, Robert Haldim was the greatest magician of all time.
00:12:15Now it's going to be me.
00:12:17Haldini!
00:12:18The poor children.
00:12:20Children, I've already searched.
00:12:22What's happening?
00:12:25I couldn't have it.
00:12:26Do you have a minute?
00:12:27We need to talk to you.
00:12:28Is there a problem?
00:12:30Can we talk in private?
00:12:40You are six years our rabbi now, and you still haven't learned to speak any English.
00:12:44With all due respect, Rabbi Weiss, this isn't Budapest.
00:12:47This is Wisconsin.
00:12:49And that is why we can no longer employ your services as our rabbi.
00:12:57Some things can hit you in the gut worse than any punch.
00:13:07I made sure I'd never be that weak.
00:13:11I've made some impossible escapes in my life.
00:13:14But my greatest escape was leaving Appleton, Wisconsin.
00:13:20My travels were short-lived, but I learned my trade before reuniting with my family in Brooklyn.
00:13:27My father died soon after.
00:13:29Dash and I teamed up to support Ma with the meager earnings from our new, not-so-spectacular,
00:13:34magic act.
00:13:35Come on, come on.
00:13:37Prepare to be mesmerized by the Houdini brothers.
00:13:41Excuse me, sir.
00:13:41May I borrow your hat?
00:13:42Fine.
00:13:43I'll see if I can give you back your watch.
00:13:46You will now give me your hat.
00:13:49Dash, will you clear the contents of this hat?
00:13:58Pick your card.
00:14:00Pick your card.
00:14:02Six of spades.
00:14:14The only thing more devastating than a punch to the gut is an arrow through the heart.
00:14:21I never even saw it coming.
00:14:47So, this Hungarian duke made a play for my mom.
00:14:50And my dad challenged the duke to a duel, right?
00:14:55Pull it went right through the duke's brain.
00:14:56Finished.
00:14:57And my father had to flee for his life.
00:14:59And, uh, you know, that's how our whole family wound up in America.
00:15:03It's just kind of romantic.
00:15:05Yeah.
00:15:07And then he died.
00:15:08Poor man.
00:15:09Oh.
00:15:10Is Harry Houdini your real name?
00:15:13It is now.
00:15:17What about you?
00:15:19Those two girls you sing with?
00:15:21Are they really your sisters?
00:15:23No, we just started performing together this summer.
00:15:25Yeah.
00:15:27Pick a hand.
00:15:29No, not that one.
00:15:33Here, open your palm.
00:15:36Oh.
00:15:38Pretty.
00:15:39Mm.
00:15:40Mm.
00:15:40You're gonna have to do better than that if you want to be the greatest magician in the world.
00:15:44Yeah?
00:15:45Mm-hmm.
00:15:47How about this?
00:15:50Mm-hmm.
00:16:19Blow on it.
00:16:28Oh!
00:16:29Oh!
00:16:30Oh!
00:16:31Look at him go.
00:16:39Best runner?
00:16:41Will you marry me?
00:16:46A week later, we tied the knot.
00:16:49That's swell.
00:16:50I guess you could say.
00:16:51I wanna show you something.
00:16:52Our wedding night was perfectly suited for us.
00:16:55Harry, what are you doing?
00:16:59Harry.
00:17:05Crouch down.
00:17:06Now, look at that.
00:17:06You're perfect.
00:17:07I knew it.
00:17:08Harry.
00:17:08Dash is way too big.
00:17:10All right, now watch your head.
00:17:11Harry.
00:17:13Ow!
00:17:14All right, now lift up the left.
00:17:15What are you doing?
00:17:16It's right here in the middle.
00:17:17Wedding night.
00:17:17You find it?
00:17:18What?
00:17:18Where?
00:17:19It's right here.
00:17:20Push it.
00:17:21There you go.
00:17:22Harry.
00:17:24Are you out of your damn mind?
00:17:26Honey, don't talk like that.
00:17:30You don't need to wear so much makeup when you're offstage.
00:17:32You're too cute for that.
00:17:33You don't need to talk.
00:17:36What about your brother?
00:17:38He'll understand.
00:17:39He'll understand.
00:17:40He knows.
00:17:40He's too big.
00:17:42Anyway, you know what I was thinking?
00:17:43We don't even need to change the billing.
00:17:47The Houdini's.
00:18:02May I now have my key back?
00:18:28Mrs. Houdini.
00:18:32So Bess and I hit the road
00:18:34with our new collection
00:18:35of eccentric friends.
00:18:37writers and friends.
00:18:54That's it.
00:18:56That's it.
00:19:08look at that now everybody and his brother's doing handcuff escapes
00:19:12including my brother there's got to be a better way to make home
00:19:18to really hit it big time i had to step off the stage into the real world
00:19:23come on sheriff what do you got to lose i don't lock folks up lest they break the law
00:19:27yeah well maybe you just don't have a whole lot of confidence in your jail
00:19:30huh sheriff
00:19:34run along mr hoo-ha this here's a college town i pull a stunt like that all the fraternity
00:19:39boys will be after me to do the same with them i couldn't afford to advertise so i just
00:19:43use those mavens of mass spectacle the press to spread the word not if you tell them they
00:19:48have to post bail first there's a hundred dollars cash on the barrel head says you
00:19:54can't hold the incomparable houdini quote
00:19:57that's all we have it's a hundred bucks it's all yours plus
00:20:03you get to take a free punch i know you're itching
00:20:10come on
00:20:15come on sheriff make it count
00:20:24like the man says that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger will wonders never cease
00:20:33did you get it
00:20:37check your pockets
00:20:40sure you want to do this now sheriff
00:20:44it's your funeral
00:20:51harry
00:20:56for luck
00:20:57thanks
00:20:59hey
00:21:01open your mouth
00:21:06one more thing
00:21:07you don't get out
00:21:09i keep you here overnight
00:21:10for disturbing the peace
00:21:12fair enough
00:21:13let's go folks
00:21:29it was the kiss that was seen across the country
00:21:35oscar wilde cy young john phillips susa
00:21:39they had nothing on me
00:21:40soon the papers weren't even calling me an entertainer anymore
00:21:44they were calling me something else
00:21:49no matter how big i got i always knew that my next escape would have to be bigger
00:21:57i also knew that along the way someone else was keeping track of all the headlines for me
00:22:07best and i were on a roll
00:22:09but i was still missing one key ingredient to take my act to the next level
00:22:23i was still missing one of them
00:22:28and i was not being able to be the case
00:22:30yeah
00:22:45these look impressive state of the art new york city police are using them i hear chief
00:22:50rohan's got a pair he plans to clamp on you in chicago you're houdini right look at this
00:22:55it's a rounded key i've never seen that before i made it myself you made it yourself
00:23:03in my workshop and look hides in a shirt cuff too see unbelievable what else you got
00:23:16looks like regular picture wire totally flexible but it has teeth it's a hacksaw
00:23:26you just destroyed your chair what's your name buster jim jim collins from macon georgia
00:23:34that's where i caught your act all right georgia you changed my life
00:23:43jim you think you can make an elephant disappear sir can you get me out of a block of ice
00:23:49i can make you catch a bullet harry we got a matinee give me time i'll figure out the elephant
00:23:58i'll give you time full time deal deal
00:24:11honey this is jim thank you amazing
00:24:17dearest ma next week i have a big surprise for you
00:24:22i wish i could be there when you see it but at the moment i'm a little tied up
00:24:27well i don't know how they do things in detroit mr h but here in chicago we lock a man
00:24:35off
00:24:36we mean him to stay locked off yeah seems like i've heard that speech before chief
00:24:43you boys having fun come on i'll need some help carrying them
00:24:53yeah great good shot fellas
00:24:59good
00:25:02now just to be sure
00:25:07smile for the birdie fellas
00:25:13well sir i believe i'll leave you to your prayers
00:25:24okay come on come on come on yeah go move it
00:25:35clear up
00:25:35clear up
00:25:35clear up
00:25:35clear up
00:25:35clear up
00:25:36clear up
00:25:38clear up
00:26:03clear up
00:26:05clear up
00:26:17dearest ma we've come a long way from appleton wisconsin
00:26:22welcome to brooklyn this is the home you've always deserved
00:26:28welcome
00:26:29welcome
00:26:33yes
00:26:33can it be a little zusammen
00:26:45inside what do you think no no not with you as a shooter not in a million years
00:26:51all right where is it let's see it come on jim had been working on what i had hoped would
00:26:59be
00:26:59my greatest escape yet the chinese water torches cell this was the big time the stunt that would
00:27:20finally put me over the top let me try it now boss you just performed three shows you'll be
00:27:34tomorrow i'll get the boys we'll set it up right now
00:27:43all right
00:27:52all right boys slower
00:27:53all right take me easy
00:28:00come on lock it in there
00:28:14something's wrong
00:28:15whoa whoa pull him up hurry up get him out
00:28:19get him up hurry up
00:28:22it's stuck
00:28:24hey pull him up
00:28:38break the glass break the glass
00:28:40look out
00:28:40get him up
00:28:57oh
00:28:58mom
00:28:59mom
00:29:02mom
00:29:03are you all right
00:29:10fantastic
00:29:17ladies and gentlemen how long can a man hold his breath shall we experiment
00:29:26on the count of three try to hold your breath ladies and gentlemen
00:29:30one two three
00:29:40as you can see seconds tick by very slowly while they do I shall disrobe
00:29:52my ankles will be shackled in a secure set of stocks prepare the stocks after
00:29:59being immobilized I will be immersed headfirst in the Chinese water torture
00:30:04cell captain O'Hare of the Chicago Fire Department is standing by with an axe in
00:30:10the event something goes wrong let's face it ladies and gentlemen there's
00:30:15always that possibility
00:30:27raise it up boys
00:30:53the only way to beat death is to put your life on the line
00:30:58the only way to beat death is to put your life on the line
00:31:16but why was I so compelled to beat death what was I trying to escape
00:31:24bring out the screen one minute
00:31:29one minute
00:31:32one minute
00:31:32one minute
00:31:48one minute
00:32:13what's going on something's wrong
00:32:18what's going on something's wrong
00:32:20what's going on something's wrong
00:32:32three minutes
00:32:33three minutes
00:32:33we got help
00:32:33three fifteen
00:32:37come on
00:32:38Get him back!
00:32:40Stop it!
00:32:41Stop it!
00:32:42Stop it!
00:32:45Get him here!
00:32:47Come on!
00:32:47Hurry!
00:32:48Get him back!
00:32:50Hurry!
00:32:51Hurry!
00:32:51Hurry!
00:32:59Stop the call!
00:33:38Houdini, ideal for our purposes. Commencing European tour. Suggest you contact Melville soonest.
00:33:43Hmm. Houdini speaks German.
00:33:45He's an immigrant, yes. German-speaking Hungarian Jew.
00:33:49Mr. Wilkie, Houdini's the most famous man in America, sure. He now makes more money than the president.
00:33:54But when all's said and done, he's just a magician, not...
00:33:57Well, what more natural cover than a traveling entertainer?
00:34:01God only knows what the Kaiser is planning. We don't.
00:34:06It would be advantageous to have someone next to that unpredictable brain of his.
00:34:11What else?
00:34:12Houdini's very devoted to his mother. Sends her money every week, even when he was broke.
00:34:16I like a man who looks after his mother.
00:34:19Contact Melville. Set it up.
00:34:23Way before anyone knew it, America had teamed up with England to keep an eye on the emerging threat from
00:34:29Germany.
00:34:29An unexpected eye.
00:34:32Me.
00:34:34And so, one of the strangest illusions I was ever asked to pull off was something called espionage.
00:34:41Not a bad fit, since a magician can never reveal his secrets.
00:34:45I take it you weren't followed, Mr. Houdini.
00:34:48I made sure that I wasn't, as instructed.
00:34:55Your country needs you. Come alone.
00:34:58Oh, that's very dramatic.
00:35:00You were recommended to us by John Wilkie.
00:35:03Never heard of him.
00:35:05Well, that's as it should be. He's director of the United States Secret Service.
00:35:09I'm Sir William Melville.
00:35:10His British counterpart in MI5.
00:35:13How do you do?
00:35:14Uh, may I have him?
00:35:21Oh, I'm definitely gonna need some of those.
00:35:30Are you saying you want me to...
00:35:32Keep your eyes and ears open, that's all.
00:35:35Depend on it.
00:35:36If war comes, the United States will fight on the British side.
00:35:40What you learn might help postpone that war.
00:35:45Maybe prevent it.
00:35:47Of course, you could never reveal your services.
00:35:49But you would have the satisfaction of knowing that you had served,
00:35:53perhaps even saved, your country.
00:35:56That's a tall order for a pavilion.
00:35:59By the by, we took the liberty of revising your passport.
00:36:03Yeah, what was wrong with my old passport?
00:36:04We made a slight adjustment to your place of birth.
00:36:12Appleton, Wisconsin.
00:36:13Kaiser Bill has only one good arm, as you may already know.
00:36:17But it can reach as far as Budapest.
00:36:19We thought it prudent to make you, shall we say, all-American.
00:36:26From now on, your place of birth is officially the United States.
00:36:31You could run for president, sir.
00:36:38Sir, I can't begin to tell you what this means to me.
00:36:41Well, think of something.
00:36:42In the meantime, think of me in loco parentis.
00:36:47Well, a sort of father-in-residence, you know?
00:37:06Where were you?
00:37:11Oh.
00:37:14With Jim.
00:37:16Jim didn't know where you were, either.
00:37:30Is it a girl?
00:37:33Girl?
00:37:35No, honey.
00:37:38Where did this come from?
00:37:39You know me better than that.
00:37:42Who is she?
00:37:44There is no she.
00:37:45Then where were you?
00:37:46I can't tell you, but...
00:37:48I'm sorry.
00:37:50I wish I could.
00:37:51I can't.
00:37:52You gotta trust me.
00:37:54I have trusted you, Harry.
00:37:59Bess.
00:38:01Honey.
00:38:02Honey.
00:38:04Trust me.
00:38:07Trust me.
00:38:10When does illusion become a lie?
00:38:13With illusion, I could be somebody.
00:38:16Escape from who I really was.
00:38:20But when did running away become so essential to me?
00:38:23Is that why I was still running?
00:38:26From him?
00:38:30No.
00:38:40I guess there are some things in life you never escape.
00:38:51Not long after I left Appleton, I became a sorcerer's apprentice.
00:38:56What a load of laughs that was.
00:39:02Come on.
00:39:17Good kid.
00:39:18Very good.
00:39:20Now, I'm gonna teach you the floating virgin.
00:39:22The thing about the floating virgin of Arkansas, she was a beautiful girl.
00:39:30She was a pale girl.
00:39:31But she loved to sleep.
00:39:37And when she slept, she floated.
00:39:43Come.
00:39:46Come.
00:39:48Come.
00:39:49Come.
00:39:53Float.
00:39:55Float, my sweet little beauty.
00:39:58Come to me.
00:39:59Come to me now.
00:40:04Look at that kid's face.
00:40:07Every lesson.
00:40:11Every knock across the chops was a building block towards what I wanted to be.
00:40:16But was it worth it?
00:40:18You doing all right out here?
00:40:19Been reading about the bullet catch.
00:40:21Oh, yeah?
00:40:23Think we should put it on the show.
00:40:24It puts you back on top.
00:40:25You're good, kid.
00:40:27Very good.
00:40:28But not as good as you think.
00:40:32Why won't you do it?
00:40:34It's dangerous, as I have reason to know.
00:40:37That's why people will eat it up.
00:40:38And who would catch the bullet?
00:40:41Me.
00:40:43Say another damn word about that bullet catch, and I swear, I'll leave you behind in the nearest ditch.
00:40:53My son.
00:40:58He died doing the catch.
00:41:06Did you load the gun?
00:41:08And pulled the trigger, too.
00:41:13Blew the back of his head off and his brains with it.
00:41:20My own boy.
00:41:26You're a liar.
00:41:28Come again?
00:41:29That story's straight out of Houdan's book.
00:41:31How he made a traveling magician, Tarini, who'd killed his son doing the bullet catch.
00:41:35You're a liar.
00:41:36Your hero, Houdan, was a liar, too.
00:41:39And by the way, it's Houdan, not Houdan.
00:41:41Houdan never ran into any magician who killed his son.
00:41:45And that book you treat like the gospel, there's only enough truth in it to make you believe the lies.
00:41:50Because that's how magic works.
00:41:52Magicians are liars, and the best magicians are the best liars.
00:42:05Was the dream I was chasing based on nothing more than lies?
00:42:13I was afraid, terrified of what I might become.
00:42:18I embraced it anyway.
00:42:20I became Harry Houdini, accepting the truth was just a story made up from a lie.
00:42:27It was a hard lesson, but it would serve me well.
00:42:31My act became the cover story for my spying.
00:42:36After five sold-out shows in Berlin, the Kaiser requested a private performance.
00:42:41Very private.
00:42:45With your majesty's indulgence, I...
00:42:48I propose a demonstration of famous German marksmanship.
00:42:52Would you kindly loan me the use of your most accomplished riflemen in the royal box?
00:43:01You're sure about this, right?
00:43:04What?
00:43:05You're sure, right?
00:43:06I thought you said it was foolproof.
00:43:08What?
00:43:09I said, you said...
00:43:11Never mind, go. Go get it.
00:43:13Your majesty may wish to observe through his opera glasses.
00:43:17No.
00:43:18Okay.
00:43:22Wiedrich, Oberstleutnant der Kaiserlichen Armee.
00:43:24Herr Oberstleutnant, are you a good shooter, Herr Oberstleutnant?
00:43:27Jawohl, mein Herr.
00:43:28Great. Hand him the rifle.
00:43:29I'm sorry, it's so old, it's all we can afford.
00:43:33Now, as you can see, the bullseye stands about, oh, shall we say, 35 feet from the shooter.
00:43:40Herr Oberstleutnant, do you believe that you can hit the bullseye?
00:43:43Or shall I move you closer?
00:43:45Sir?
00:43:57Child's play, huh?
00:43:58Very well.
00:43:59Fire when you're ready, Lieutenant.
00:44:06Wonderful shooting, Lieutenant.
00:44:08Wonderful.
00:44:10I would trust you with my life.
00:44:13Bravo.
00:44:14Now, let us reload.
00:44:17Quite a production, these old guns.
00:44:19As you can see, first we take a measure of powder, we pour it down the barrel.
00:44:23This is followed by a wad of paper.
00:44:25And then the bullet.
00:44:33Will you inspect the bullet, Lieutenant?
00:44:38Thank you, Lieutenant.
00:44:40The bullet is now pressed down with the bram rod, like so.
00:44:46Does that look all right, Lieutenant?
00:44:48Yeah, well.
00:44:49Now, one last bit of child's play.
00:44:51Jim, hand the Lieutenant the musket.
00:44:55Lieutenant, please take aim at the bullseye again.
00:45:16I will now attempt to catch the bullet with my teeth.
00:45:31I said I trust you with my life, Lieutenant.
00:45:33Now you have to trust me.
00:45:40Ready?
00:45:52Fire the gun.
00:45:55Fire!
00:45:59Fire the gun!
00:46:01Pull the trigger!
00:46:03Pull the trigger!
00:46:17Pull the trigger!
00:46:18I don't know.
00:46:51Is that the bullet?
00:46:57Excellent shooting, Lieutenant.
00:46:59Excellent shooting.
00:47:00Thank you, Your Majesty.
00:47:03Once you know the secret, most tricks are simple, including this one.
00:47:09The bullet is now tamped down with a ramrod, like so.
00:47:13Does that look all right, Lieutenant?
00:47:15All it took was a magnet at the end of the ramrod.
00:47:26Catching bullets in my teeth was one thing,
00:47:28but espionage remained my European mistress,
00:47:31an altogether different kind of escape.
00:47:34Welcome to Budapest, Mr. Houdini.
00:47:36My name is Riley.
00:47:38Does your hometown bring back many memories?
00:47:41Remember, you've never been here.
00:47:43Don't look around. You're merely conversing with an old friend.
00:47:47How was Berlin?
00:47:48I understand the Kaiser was impressed.
00:47:51Yeah, enough to invite me to watch his cavalry maneuvers.
00:47:55I overheard a few things.
00:47:58They're building seven new battleships.
00:48:01They're not ready yet, but they're definitely planning for war.
00:48:04They call it the Schlieffen Plan.
00:48:08Schlieffen?
00:48:10Our friend in London will be most interested.
00:48:13Meantime, he sent you a book.
00:48:14He knows you'll love to read.
00:48:18Russian grammar?
00:48:21Harry thought this would come in handy for your upcoming trip to Moscow.
00:48:25Melville.
00:48:30You have a performance?
00:48:33Sort of.
00:48:34My mother arrives on the afternoon train from Paris.
00:48:37A trip back to the old country.
00:48:40How could I possibly explain what I had in mind?
00:48:47Oh, look at this, honey.
00:48:50Sometimes a guy can't even tell his own wife about the plans he has for a new dress.
00:48:55But Ma deserved the best.
00:48:58Because the best was what she inspired me to become.
00:49:05And I was finally given the chance to thank her for it.
00:49:31What's going on?
00:49:34Queen for a day.
00:49:37Harry told me people around here thought his mother married beneath her to a failed rabbi.
00:49:43And she goes along with these?
00:49:45Of course.
00:49:46To her, Harry is magic.
00:50:06Like I told you, Ma.
00:50:09Money for nothing.
00:50:11Didn't I promise?
00:50:12Huh?
00:50:13Didn't I tell you one day it'll be gold?
00:50:15I'll be a spine gold.
00:50:27Hello, young man.
00:50:33Your Majesty, it's an honor to play the palace.
00:50:35So kind.
00:50:36I'd love to see if I could make one of your family's wishes come true.
00:50:39Would each of you write a special wish on these slips of paper?
00:50:45I see your Majesty has a Fabergé egg.
00:50:47It's very beautiful.
00:50:48Would you mind if I place the wishes inside of it?
00:50:50No, that's all.
00:50:55And now, Grand Duchess Anastasia, will you draw one out and hand it to me?
00:51:10I just realized I can't read Russian.
00:51:14Would your Majesty mind translating for me?
00:51:19I'm afraid you will never be able to grant a wish, Houdini.
00:51:23Well, let me give it a shot, Your Majesty.
00:51:25What does it say?
00:51:26One of us wishes you would make the clamoring bells ring again.
00:51:32Impossible, Houdini.
00:51:34The Kremlin bells have not rung for a hundred years.
00:51:39The ropes are long rotted and the stairs are falling away.
00:51:42Well, if magic were easy, Your Majesty, every fool would be doing it.
00:51:50What did he...
00:51:51I'm sorry, I don't know the gentleman's name.
00:51:53Rasputin.
00:51:54Rasputin says you are fool of...
00:51:58Fool of...
00:51:58Ah, I get the general idea.
00:52:01Well, we'll see.
00:52:10Hmm...
00:52:27All right.
00:52:42Vandachis Anastasia, come.
00:52:47Pull the rope.
00:52:52Pull it again.
00:52:57Pull the rope.
00:53:02Pull it.
00:53:06So even Rasputin, the man obsessed with religion and mysticism, couldn't see through my little parlor trick.
00:53:16Well, wonders never cease.
00:53:19Hey, big guy, I bet you'd love to give me a punch, huh?
00:53:22Punch?
00:53:24You know you're itching.
00:53:25One thing I learned a long time ago, never let him know what's really going on inside.
00:53:54Yeah, after that, I could do no wrong.
00:53:56We stayed for dinner and they talked their heads off.
00:53:59The Tsar thinks he's going to war with Japan.
00:54:02If he does, he'll lose.
00:54:04A Russia lose against little Japan?
00:54:05Yeah, because they all take orders from that Rasputin character.
00:54:09They do whatever he says.
00:54:10It's crazy.
00:54:11A mad monk in command?
00:54:13Why?
00:54:13Well, it seems he's got a little magic act of his own.
00:54:15He's the only one who can keep the Tsar's son from bleeding.
00:54:18Of course, the boy's a hemophiliac.
00:54:20They do anything to keep Rasputin happy.
00:54:22He's not their only problem.
00:54:24There's social unrest everywhere.
00:54:25But in these days, the whole place is going to explode.
00:54:28Yeah, so we're very good, Harry.
00:54:31Most instructive.
00:54:33So tell me, how did you get the Kremlin bells to ring?
00:54:37Well, that was the only wish I was ready for.
00:54:40Now, Grand Duchess Anastasi, will you take one out and hand it to me?
00:54:47So then I said to her, I just realized I can't read Russian.
00:54:53Would your majesty not translate?
00:55:21Hold on.
00:55:36Pull it.
00:55:43They were convinced I had spiritual powers.
00:55:46And do you?
00:55:49So, what are your plans?
00:55:51Will you return to the States?
00:55:54Well, not until I figure out something new.
00:55:57Now everybody's copying my routine.
00:55:58And my name.
00:56:00Blondini, Handini, Merlini.
00:56:03I think you need a new challenge.
00:56:07The Adelphi Theater is just a stone's throw from the German embassy.
00:56:11So?
00:56:12So, we're reliably informed there's a copy of the Schlieffen plan in the safe in the ambassador's office.
00:56:19And what an extraordinary stroke of luck it would be for us if you managed to lay your hands on
00:56:23it.
00:56:23You're a perfect alibi.
00:56:26Handcuffed on stage.
00:56:30Safe, huh?
00:56:39Which is how I happen to wind up in one.
00:57:01But not that safe.
00:57:03It was a different safe.
00:57:07The one inside the German ambassador's office.
00:57:14Let me start from the beginning.
00:57:24Soon after the act started, I wasn't even inside the safe anymore.
00:57:33Jimmie told the audience that about ten minutes of air.
00:57:36Audiences go nuts for a ticking clock.
00:57:44Where is he?
00:57:45He didn't tell me the stage, but he promised he'd be back in time to finish the show.
00:57:49Back from where?
00:57:51I really don't know.
00:57:53I can't do this anymore.
00:57:54This is killing me.
00:58:07Tonight is our 10th anniversary, and I know he's going to forget.
00:58:12I know it.
00:58:13I know it.
00:58:16I know it.
00:58:23I know it.
00:58:40It's great.
00:58:42Bye-bye.
00:59:07I'll show you.
00:59:12All right, in here.
00:59:22Voila!
00:59:32I'll show you.
00:59:34I'll show you.
00:59:54I'll show you.
00:59:57I'll show you.
01:00:11I'll show you.
01:00:33Jim strolled for time like the pro he was.
01:00:35But we both knew I had to be back for the grand finale.
01:00:45The grand finale that even had a special surprise for Beth.
01:00:53All I had to do was get out of the safe I'd never been in before.
01:01:00And there wasn't any air in this one either.
01:01:04My brain is the key that sets me free.
01:01:08My brain is the key that sets me free.
01:01:12Try to remember the arrangement.
01:01:15Locks, gears, and the Jarvis safe.
01:01:27Open it!
01:01:30Jump!
01:01:31Break it to him!
01:01:40Break it to him!
01:01:42Open up!
01:01:43Come on!
01:02:05All right!
01:02:19Finally, that old ambassador remembered where the bedroom was.
01:02:55Hey, gotta do the German safe, literally.
01:02:59Sorry, I'm late for a celebration.
01:03:05Is that addressed to my wife?
01:03:15Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini,
01:03:36Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini,
01:03:48Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini,
01:03:51Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini,
01:03:55Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs. Houdini, Mrs
01:04:23Happy anniversary, honey.
01:04:26Happy anniversary.
01:04:29And she thought I forgot.
01:04:33Anyway, thanks for sticking around for the grand finale, folks.
01:04:49Oh, that was swell, honey, huh?
01:04:53That was a surprise.
01:04:54That was all for you.
01:04:56No.
01:04:56No, it was not for me.
01:04:58It's never just for me.
01:05:00It's for them.
01:05:02It's for the act.
01:05:03It is always for the act.
01:05:04And you and I both know it, Harry.
01:05:06No.
01:05:07No.
01:05:11What are you trying to prove, Harry?
01:05:13How brave you are?
01:05:14How American you are?
01:05:16Just tell me what it is.
01:05:19Tell me what.
01:05:20I don't mean to intrude, but the car's here.
01:05:24You still going to Lady Butler's?
01:05:26Oh.
01:05:27Honey, I'm sorry.
01:05:28I know.
01:05:29It's in our honor.
01:05:31It is in your honor.
01:05:32Sweetheart, let's just make an appearance, okay?
01:05:35I promise.
01:05:3630 minutes tops.
01:05:39It's Lady Butler.
01:05:41It's in your honor.
01:05:42It's in your honor.
01:05:43It's in your honor.
01:05:45It's in your honor.
01:05:45Yes, she has, actually.
01:05:47I just spoke with you for the sake of the morning.
01:05:48That Rasputin character packed quite a wallop, I tell you.
01:05:51He was a regular.
01:05:52It was John L. Sullivan.
01:05:54I could take the punch, but he knocked me out with his vodka breath, you know?
01:05:59Really?
01:06:00Yeah.
01:06:02Oh, I say.
01:06:03Mind if I make myself comfortable?
01:06:05If I win.
01:06:09That's the true truth, isn't it?
01:06:11Very light.
01:06:15Oh, you are very pretty.
01:06:36Yes, sir.
01:06:37Some things can hit you in the gut worse than any punch.
01:06:43Yes, sir.
01:07:20Oh, Harry.
01:07:25I'm going to kill myself.
01:07:26Well, that's what I'm always saying.
01:07:29Is that funny?
01:07:31Is it funny?
01:07:32Oh, for heaven's sake.
01:07:35What are you so upset about?
01:07:38You were kissing him.
01:07:41You were kissing him!
01:07:43No, I wasn't.
01:07:44Yes, you were!
01:07:45No, I was not.
01:07:47And until you looked over, you didn't know where I was at that party, and you didn't care.
01:07:51So stop being dramatic.
01:07:53You're my wife.
01:07:55You're the wife of the great Houdini!
01:07:58Really?
01:07:59I thought I was just a woman you put in a trunk and took out when you felt like it.
01:08:11What do you do when you hit rock bottom?
01:08:14You keep digging.
01:08:16Divine creature.
01:08:31See if you can escape.
01:08:35Would you like me to release you?
01:08:42By this point, I really wasn't up for this.
01:08:52Be right back.
01:08:55That's when I discovered my next escape.
01:08:57What is it?
01:08:58I don't know.
01:09:00A glorious one.
01:09:06Well, wonders never cease.
01:09:11Houdini!
01:09:16I don't know how these things work in America, but in London, it's considered impolite
01:09:22to keep a lady waiting.
01:09:31I don't know.
01:09:32I don't know.
01:09:52I just don't know.
01:09:59where are you start without me what
01:10:06where are you going keep the chains
01:10:11what are you doing here i had a feeling you believe in get me one of those what do you
01:10:19want
01:10:19an airmobile you know how it is when you fall in love flying is all i could think of this
01:10:29time this is only rival with an airplane and for years it was our carriage to the world
01:10:51but everything changes even flying lost its novelty
01:10:59i was falling back to earth and on earth things were changing too
01:11:08so
01:11:15so
01:11:16Let's go.
01:11:51Let's go.
01:12:17Let's go.
01:12:22Let's go.
01:12:49Let's go.
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01:16:55Dust.
01:16:55Let's go.
01:16:55That's what it says.
01:16:56That's what it says,
01:16:56Buddy was Michelle.
01:16:56I don't know.
01:17:42I don't know.
01:18:01It was the wrong moment to start thinking.
01:18:04If I started to think, I might forget who I was.
01:18:09The great Rodini.
01:18:12Whoa.
01:18:14Whoa.
01:18:16Whoa.
01:18:19Whoa.
01:18:23Whoa.
01:18:25Whoa.
01:18:25Whoa.
01:18:27Sorry.
01:18:38Are they still down there?
01:19:09Are they still down there?
01:19:29Are they still down there?
01:20:02Are they still down there?
01:20:29Are they still down there?
01:20:33Are they still down there?
01:20:41Are they still down there?
01:20:41Are they still down there?
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