Advertising for Houdini’s four “feature” movies told audiences what they could expect to SEE:

• The Grim Game
  • SEE Houdini escape from handcuffs, chains and a prison cell!
  • SEE him plunge between the wheels of a speeding motor-truck and foil his pursuers!
  • SEE him climb the side of a prison and crawl for a rope to the end of a flagpole swaying far from earth!
  • SEE him, on the brink of a gorge, fight a terrifying battle with his foes!
  • SEE him leap from the roof a skyscraper and release himself from a strait-jacket while hanging, head downward, on a rope!
  • SEE him risk his life in a deadly bear-trap and set himself free!
  • SEE him in all the other amazing scenes in this stirring story of love, mystery and dare-devil adventure!
  • SEE him, above everything else, in the most astounding feat ever caught by a motion picture camera:–Two aeroplanes race through the sky—The hero is lowered from one to the other — Just as he is about to board from one to the other — Just as he is about to board his enemy’s car the machines clash in an accident, turn over and over, and plunge to the ground thousands of feet beneath!
• Terror Island
  • SEE Houdini escape from a nailed-up box forty fathoms under water.
  • SEE him release a girl from a safe that is locked and sunk in the sea.
  • SEE his hand-to-hand encounter with a pirate diver under the waves.
  • SEE him, at grips with a giant savage, plunge from a high cliff into the ocean.
  • SEE the overseas race to a South Sea isle to salvage sunken treasure.
  • SEE the battle royal for love and gold in a sinking submarine.
  • SEE the barbarous feast-day rites that lead to human sacrifice.
  • SEE the world’s master of magic and daring in the greatest feats of his whole career.
• The Man From Beyond
  • SEE him fight to the death on the edge of the rocky cliff 300 ft above the yawning chasm!
  • SEE him make the sensational swim of the rapids of Niagara!
  • SEE him accomplish the unparalleled thrill of all times—the rescue of the girl on the very brink of Niagara Falls itself!
  • SEE him as the man who, encased in Artic ice for 100 years, is chopped out, and restored to life.
• Haldane of the Secret Service
  • SEE how he escapes while bound hand and foot and cast into the Hudson.
  • SEE him battle the dignitaries beneath Paris streets.
  • SEE how he reaches the giant liner after he has gone to sleep.
  • SEE his miraculous escape while tied to the revolving water mill.
  • SEE him break the ring of nation’s counterfeiters, the financial foreign-backer of the world.
  • SEE him rescue his sweetheart from the clutches of the terrible Dr. Yu.