A long lost 1919 silent film starring legendary escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini has been found and restored and will play at the TCM Classic Film Festival in March. The Grim Game (1919), released by Famous Players-Lasky Corp. /Paramount Pictures, features Houdini in one of his few starring roles. He plays Harvey Hanford, a young man who is framed for murder, escapes from the police and goes after the gang who set him up. Houdini, then about 45, displays his considerable skills as an escape artist and stuntman throughout the 50-minute feature, which also includes a midair collision between two airplanes above Santa Monica that was a real accident caught during filming.
