| Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope. |
| Now a new film based on the life of Harry Houdini is set to tell the fictional tale of how the escapologist fell in love with an Edinburgh woman. |
| The eldest son reinvents himself as Harry, after Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist, whose feats are recorded in a book he finds. |
| A further highlight will be escapologist, Paul Sanderson, dangling from a crane in a strait-jacket. |
| Harry Houdini was such a great escapologist that even his friends, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, believed he must have had supernatural help. |
| Among the myths exposed along the way is the idea that Houdini, great escapologist though he was, could do magic. |
