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The Master Mystery (1920) - Part 1 & 2
2 X DVD9

The Master Mystery (1920) - Part 1
Aka: The Houdini Serial
Directors: Harry Grossman; Burton L King
Cast: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton,
William Pike, Charles Graham, Floyd Buckley, Jack Burns

Description: Renowned escape artist Harry Houdini harnesses his powers to amaze
a captive audience in a classic silent serial and two thrilling feature films.
In the 15-part 'The Master Mystery', Justice Department agent Quentin Locke must
investigate a powerful cartel protected by a robot (here referred to as 'The
Automaton') and using a gas weapon, 'The Madagascar Madness'; in 'Terror Island',
Houdini stars as an inventor who uses his scientific know-how to rescue his
lover's father; and in 'The Man from Beyond', he plays a man who returns to
civilization after being frozen for 100 years.

DVD Format: NTSC
DVD9: 7.57 GiB - Exact Copy
Color: Black & White [Tinted]
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Language: English [Silent]
Subtitle: English [Embedded]
Closed Captioned: No
Commentary: None
Extras: Episode Guide; Stills Gallery; The Censor's Report (06:19); Film Notes
[See Disc Two for Additional Features]
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Time: 02:51:08
Total Feature Time: 03:59:01
DVD Studio: Kino International
Release Date: 2008-04-08

The Master Mystery (1920) - Part 2
Aka: The Houdini Serial
Directors: Harry Grossman; Burton L King

Cast: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton,
William Pike, Charles Graham, Floyd Buckley, Jack Burns

Description: Renowned escape artist Harry Houdini harnesses his powers to amaze
a captive audience in a classic silent serial and two thrilling feature films.
In the 15-part 'The Master Mystery', Justice Department agent Quentin Locke must
investigate a powerful cartel protected by a robot (here referred to as 'The
Automaton') and using a gas weapon, 'The Madagascar Madness'; in 'Terror Island',
Houdini stars as an inventor who uses his scientific know-how to rescue his
lover's father; and in 'The Man from Beyond', he plays a man who returns to
civilization after being frozen for 100 years.

Time: 01:07:53
Total Feature Time: 03:59:01
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The Man from Beyond (1922)

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013367/

Director: Burton L. King

Cast: Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly,
Frank Montgomery, Luis Alberni, Yale Benner, Jane Connelly, Nita Naldi

Description: The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years,
is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a
young woman, Felice, is his fianc?e from a century before. Hillary is interned
in a mental institution but escapes and realizes the truth of where he is and
that Felice is actually the descendant of his own Felice from long ago. Hillary
joins her in searching for her father, who has been abducted by someone known
to them both.

Extras: The Censor's Report; Stills Gallery; Pressbook Excerpts
Time: 01:07:00
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Terror Island (1920)

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011753/

Director: James Cruze

Cast: Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor, Eugene Pallette,
Ed Brady, Frank Bonner, Ted Duncan, F A Turner, Rosemary Theby

Description: Take a ship of sunken pearls, a submarine, a South Seas trader
held hostage for the return of the idol's eye, human sacrifice, television,
and a most peculiar tribe of Polynesians in which the men are all African-
Americans and the women are all fat blondes.

Color: Black & White
Extras: Stills Gallery
Time: 00:55:06

DVD Format: NTSC
DVD9: 7.56 GiB - Exact Copy
Color: Black & White [Tinted]
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Language: English [Silent]
Subtitle: English [Embedded]
Closed Captioned: No
Commentary: None
Extras: Film Notes [See Disc One for Additional Features]
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Total Disc Time: 03:09:59
DVD Studio: Kino International
Release Date: 2008-04-08

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