sentences:  Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her.The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions.In the 1890s, young Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis) is performing with a Coney Island carnival as Bruto, the Wild Man, when Bess (Janet Leigh), a naive onlooker, tries to protect him from the blows of Schultz (Sig Ruman), his "trainer."