 Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA Reveals the Secrets of Uncovering Houdini's 1919 Lost Silent Film The Grim GameBy: The Houdini Museum Houdini's movie Grim Game made in 1919, has been unavailable until now and considered lost. Brookz commented, "The only complete copy of the film was hidden in the collection of juggler Larry Weeks who got it from Houdini's wife after Houdini died. I have known Larry since I was in my early teens. Larry trusted us and knew we would never do any thing that was not in his best interest. He knew with us involved it would be done in a proper way to protect his legacy. We even put together and host his web site." http://larryweeks.info Dorothy and Dick had kept a friendly relationship with Larry Weeks and that is what helped to make this happen. Dietrich added, "Our show business contact for negotiations, friend for over 20 years, film producer Rick Schmidlin, was the right person to bring this project to fruition. Rick had to jump through a lot of hoops and clear several hurdles with tough negotiations. In the end, Rick put the pieces together to get the film, have it restored and added an original movie score. The wonderful thing is that the film content is complete, although it required a lot of restoration." The restored film will have a musical score composed by Brane Zivkovic, an award winning film, television, and theatre composer. This was all done with financial help from Turner Classic Movies, who will premiere it at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival held Thursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29, 2015, in Hollywood. Dietrich continued, "We are so proud to have accomplished this. To know that essentially every magician in the world big and small, will get the thrill of viewing this wonderful Houdini movie because of us. This includes future magicians for all time, as well as millions of non magicians. It was our goal to get this to someone who would release it to the public and not hoard in their cellar or a back room somewhere.” Background information. The Houdini Museum located in Scranton, PA is the only building in the world dedicated to Houdini. It has been put together by well known professional magicians Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz. The Houdini Museum has also taken on the responsibility of taking care of the abandoned Houdini Grave site and recently replaced Houdini's missing bust that was destroyed 40 years ago by vandals. http://houdini.org Dorothy Dietrich is considered the leading female magician and escape artist in the world having been called "the First Lady of Magic," and "The Female Houdini." She has appeared in countless Television specials including "You Asked For It", a Bill Cosby Special, Montel Williams, "The Tomorrow Show", "Atlantic City Alive", "Just For The Record, the Best Of Everything", "Evening Magazine", etc. She was Special Guest Star in HBO's "The World's Greatest Escapes," costarring movie legend Tony Curtis, in which she escaped hanging from the bottom of a parachute ride hundreds of feet in the air while hanging from a singe piece of rope that was set on fire and she is the only woman in history to accomplish The Jinxed Bullet Catch in the mouth, the one stunt Houdini backed out of. The stunt has killed over 13 men and injured many others. This stunt was done at Resorts International in Atlantic City. Both stand as world records to this day. When not doing crazy stunts such as these she travels with a magic show that features doves, a duck, a rabbit and two pet poodles. When in her home town of Scranton she appears on a regular basis on stage of The Houdini Museum. http://dorothydietrich.com Dick Brookz has been a professional magician his entire life. He has fronted for Bobby Darin, Jack Jones and Neil Sedaka and performed at such venues as #1 Fifth Ave, The Rainbow Grill, The Americana Hotel and Casino in Puerto Rico, Aruba Hotel and Casino, etc. http://dickbrookz.com Rick Schmidlin is a film preservationist, silent film scholar, and a producer-director whose work has focused on restorations, reconstructions and documentaries. In 1982 Rick produced music videos for several bands. Rick developed a career in film full time. In 1986 he became assistant to the producer on the movie "The Fly" and worked on the feature film "Hoosiers". Rick then produced the long form home video "The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl" which was voted #1 non-theatrical of 1987 by Video magazine. He produced four other projects for The Doors and MCA Home Video including "Doors Collection" a special edition Laserdisc/ DVD. He produced the film "The Doors:The Soft Parade - A Retrospective" Grim Game movie posters at http://houdini.org/ Contact info More hi res pics available... Penny Wilkes The Houdini Museum 1433 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA.18508 570-342-5555 magicus@comcast.net http://www.Houdini.org Contact Penny Wilkes ***@comcast.net 570 342 5555 Photos: https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ End
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