Exhume Houdini to see if he was murdered?

Number Six · 22nd March 2007, 03:10 PM

This theory seems far-fetched to my (admittedly limited) understanding of the whole situation but I'm still glad to see it because it gets Houdini's name in the news.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/22/ho....ap/index.html

steverino · 22nd March 2007, 03:30 PM

It would be intriguing, and like you, I think it would be cool to see a spotlight on him again. I seem to recall Tony Curtis dying inaccurately in the old movie. I wonder why they fudged on the mainstream notion of his death?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/

The movie contains several factual errors, the most telling of which is the dramatization of his death. In the film he runs into a prop sword handle and ruptures his appendix, then almost drowns in the torture tank trick and dies on the stage in the arms of his wife. In real life he was punched in the stomach by a college boy who had heard that Houdini could withstand any blow without harm. This did, indeed, rupture his appendix. He later collapsed on stage, was taken to the hospital and died there.

22nd March 2007, 03:10 PM	#1
Number Six JREF Kid Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,017	Exhume Houdini to see if he was murdered? This theory seems far-fetched to my (admittedly limited) understanding of the whole situation but I'm still glad to see it because it gets Houdini's name in the news. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/22/ho....ap/index.html
Number Six JREF Kid Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,017

22nd March 2007, 03:30 PM	#2
steverino Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle, Washington Posts: 3,688	It would be intriguing, and like you, I think it would be cool to see a spotlight on him again. I seem to recall Tony Curtis dying inaccurately in the old movie. I wonder why they fudged on the mainstream notion of his death? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/ The movie contains several factual errors, the most telling of which is the dramatization of his death. In the film he runs into a prop sword handle and ruptures his appendix, then almost drowns in the torture tank trick and dies on the stage in the arms of his wife. In real life he was punched in the stomach by a college boy who had heard that Houdini could withstand any blow without harm. This did, indeed, rupture his appendix. He later collapsed on stage, was taken to the hospital and died there.
	__________________ "Ferchrissakes I am not Jewish..."- Darth Rotor "Well, my nipples are pink. I've never looked at my own butt-hole, but I hope it's pink too." Mycroft "In the military, a gay man might see a wiener, and we all know that when a gay man sees a wiener, he goes into an uncontrollable frenzy of lust."- Marquis de Carabas