Houdini

…director also made the biopic Houdini, which featured Tony Curtis as the legendary escape artist. After Red Garters (1954), a musical western with Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell, Marshall’s tenure at Paramount ended.

…his performances in George Marshall’s Houdini (1953), as Harry Houdini; Carol Reed’s Trapeze (1956), as an Italian aerialist; and Sweet Smell of Success (1957), as an unprincipled press agent. In The Defiant Ones (1958), set in the racially segregated South, his portrayal of an