My friend, John Cox, over at Wild About Harry, knocked it out of the park with a two part interview with Rick Schmidlin, the man who produced the restoration of Houdini’s “The Grim Game”.  Check it out.

• Rick Schmidlin (Part I): Finding The Grim Game
• Rick Schmidlin (Part II): Saving The Grim Game

BONUS INTERVIEW is coming.

In Part II of the interview, we discover that it was in 1959 when a 16mm negative and print was made from a 35mm nitrate original [that Larry Weeks acquired in 1947 from Houdini heirs according to the opening title card in the restored movie]. What we don’t find out is the specifics of how and where Larry might have gotten his original 35mm nitrate print.  But not to worry, John is going to do a BONUS INTERVIEW in which he and Rick speculate on where Larry might have gotten his original 35mm print.  It should be interesting indeed. Stay tuned!

UPDATE:

BONUS INTERVIEW is here.

• Rick Schmidlin (Bonus): Where did Larry Weeks get The Grim Game?