A young magician and escape artist runs off to join a traveling carnival.
This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>