11 October 1919 Adventure, Drama 71 mins
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
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Harry Houdini as Harvey Hanford
Thomas Jefferson as Dudley Cameron
Ann Forrest as Mary Cameron
Augustus Phillips as Clifton Allison
Tully Marshall as Richard Raver
Arthur Hoyt as Dr. Harvey Tyson
Mae Busch as Ethel Delmead
Edward Martin as Police Reporter
Jane Wolfe as Hannah
Irvin Willat Director
Walter Woods Scenario Writer
Irvin Willat Writer
Jesse L. Lasky Executive Producer
Frank M. Blount Director of Photography
J.O. Taylor Director of Photography
United States 11 October 1919
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