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MagicAndBlackjack Elite user 442 Posts |
Does anybody know of any movies that are about magic or a magician? Like a Hollywood movie, not an instructional video or anything. I always thought it would be fun to see a movie revolving around magic.
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pxs Loyal user London 284 Posts |
There have been a whole lot of movies about Houdini. The Tony Curtis film was pretty good (although not entirely accurate). There was also a TV movie about Houdini a few years back which was reasonably entertaining.
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mattneufeld Regular user 119 Posts |
There's a movie called The Magician. There's apparently several others about magicians, if you go by just conversations with various magicians. However, I don't have the exact names, years and stars just now. But it's a good question. There was also apparently a short-lived television series about a magician--perhaps called The Magician--and I think it starred Bill Bixby. Now, if you include all the television shows and movies that have featured magician characters, real-life magicians, magic tricks and illusions, and cameos by magicians playing themselves, then you're talking in the hundreds, if not thousands, of films.
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marko Inner circle 2109 Posts |
I don't know of too many films that revolve around magic or magicians. And the ones that I do know aren't very good. But for films that deal with closely related subjects I highly recommend the films of David Mamet (Ricky Jay even appears in many of them).
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Ellen Kotzin Loyal user UPSTATE, NY 280 Posts |
The Escape Artist. It's 1982 but Harry's first film.
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El_Lamo Special user Canada 589 Posts |
O.K. This is abridged from the Complete Idiot's Guide to Magic by Tom Ogden. The list has much more detail and the book has many more fascinating sections. I strongly recommend it.
Cheers - El Lamo
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kihei kid Inner circle Dog House 1039 Posts |
Bravo, El_Lamo, Bravo. Ask and you shall recieve.
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Mark Rough Inner circle Ivy, Virginia 2110 Posts |
There's an early Anthony Hopkins movie just called "Magic" about a psychotic ventiloquist. I think it was made in the mid to late 70's, perhaps early 80's. Very creepy. None of my local video stores--and there are a lot around here--carry it though. I'm still in search.
Mark
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
Next year, you will be able to go to the movie theater and see The War Magician (about Jasper Maskelyne, and produced by Tom Cruise), and Carter Beats The Devil (a fictional murder mystery based on the book of the same name).
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MagicAndBlackjack Elite user 442 Posts |
Sounds good. Thanks for all the replies.
I will have to check a couple of those out. Thanks again. TJ |
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Emily Belleranti Veteran user Tucson, Arizona 349 Posts |
Wow!
That's quite a list, El_Lamo. I'll have to take a look at a few of those. Thanks for taking the time to type all of those up.
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Marshall Thornside Inner circle chicago 2016 Posts |
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On 2003-11-04 17:24, mattneufeld wrote: Yes Bill Bixby was the featured actor in the movie. In fact, my father was personally asked to be in the movie with him, but turned him down.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
There was a TV-movie starring Christopher George called Escape about an escape artist who fights criminals. (I have to wonder about the brains of the criminals who actually put the escape artist into a strait jacket and hang him upside down and think he's helpless!)
Also, The Magician was a pilot for the series starring Bill Bixby. (I liked it better in the first season when he was jetting around the world with the cool pilot rather than him staying at the Magic Castle with the ditzy guy helping him.) Another pilot was Blacke's Magic with Hal Linden as a retired magician who solves mysteries with his con man father Harry Morgan. This one was created by the same team that gave us Burke's Law back in the sixties and the odd thing was, they used the same plot! (A Burke's Law episode had the millionare detective investigating the death of a magician who'd spent a major amount of time submerged in a pool, only to be discovered dead from a gunshot wound when he was brought out.) In the Burke's Law and Blacke's Magic storylines, the murder happens at a magician's convention which gives them lots of room for magician's jokes. (Jill St. John plays a model who pressed into being the general assistant for all the magicians.) In the remake of Burke's Law, they do the same story (again) only this time three magicians are performing at a private party. Same bad guy, although the motive changed from the '60s episode to the '90's remake.
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mattneufeld Regular user 119 Posts |
Just so everyone's clear: Yes, there is a 1959 film starring Max Von Sydow called The Magician, and there was a television series called "The Magician" starring Bill Bixby.
By the way, there was an excellent episode of "The X-Files" that starred a magician, included magic as part of the plot, and included a few tricks or two--including the rotating-hand trick, which Scully did at the end of the episode. Highly recommended episode, if you come across it. |
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Adam Grace V.I.P. LA, CA 149 Posts |
Don't forget "Shade" which is coming out this next year. Stallone plays the Dean, Hal Holbrook plays Vernon, Jamie Foxx plays Larry Jennings, and I play.... well you'll just have to wait and see...
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Did they ever get off the ground with The Magician's Wife? (I think that was the title.) It was supposed to be about Robert-Houdin's performing in the Middle East to help the French put down a rebellion. (I remember one reviewer actually saying the magician's name was "Robert Houdin.")
It was supposed to star Sean Connery, which would have to be one of the oddest pieces of casting going unless they cut out the part about his being French!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Reis O'Brien Inner circle Seattle, WA 2467 Posts |
That magician in The X-Files was the one and only Ricky Jay! There was also a TNT original movie called Houdini, but I still haven't been able to find it. I am, however, going to look for some of those movies in El Lamo's list. Good show, old chap!
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Dr. TORA Inner circle TURKEY 1439 Posts |
And as far I remember, David Copperfield had acted as a magician on the train in the movie Horror Train.
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Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Let’s see, films that I remember and that have not been mentioned above (or that I missed) include the old 1960’s movie version of the book The Circus of Dr. Lao called the Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. The entire circus was an illusion and included Merlin the Magician (the REAL Merlin that is!).
Then from my childhood, there were a series of films staring Chester Morris (a good magician that I actually got to see perform, as a magician, once) as "Boston Blakie". Chester started life as a magician and did magic tricks in his films. There were between 12 and 14 of the films made between 1941 and 1949 (or maybe 1950). A good Czechoslovakian (remember when there was a Czechoslovakia?) film called The Last Trick (1965) by Jan Svankmajer used a conflict between two masked magicians (masked magicians) to carry forth his story line. Interesting film that used illusions, sleights, misdirection, and thread and wires more than special camera effects. I’m sure that I can come up with about a dozen more given time, but these ought to suffice for now. Oh, be sure to watch for the soon to be released Kate Winslet, Geoffery Rush film The Magician’s Wife. The film is about a French illusionist (Robert-Houdin played by Rush) and his wife (Winslet) who are sent on a special mission to Africa by Napoleon. This was to stave off a Holy war. And keep posted on The War Magician which has been discussed elsewhere here.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2003-11-16 16:53, TORA wrote: Terror Train--I saw it. David says he used to go out and rent copies of it just to destroy. The rental company charges him full price for the film and there's one less copy of Terror Train in the world! As far as he was concerned, it was a plan with no downside. I remember Siskel and Ebert getting upset at the idea of using a real magician to play a magician in a movie and actually advertising the fact that there were no camera tricks in the magic. I thought David was good, the film was **** but the ending was a surprise!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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