Robert Osborne Intro - The Grim Game (1919)

Grim Game, The (1919) -- (Movie Clip) Forty Winks

Newspaper editor Allison (Augustus Phillips) owes money to the rich miserly uncle of star reporter Hanford (Harry Houdini), who’s hanging out in the newsroom when the boss summons him seeking help, in the newly restored long-lost Houdini vehicle, The Grim Game, 1919.

Grim Game, The (1919) -- (Movie Clip) Not A Welcome Visitor

Comments from restoration producer Rick Schmidlin, preface to the 1919 Harry Houdini feature from Paramount, introducing the star, a crafty reporter and the nephew of wealthy skinflint Dudley Cameron (Thomas Jefferson), guarded by servant Banks (uncredited), in The Grim Game, 1919.

Grim Game, The (1919) -- (Movie Clip) Circumstantial Evidence

Evil rich old uncle Cameron (Thomas Jefferson) has summoned his doctor (Tully Marshall), who covets his ward Mary (Ann Forrest), to discuss an inheritance scheme, while she is meantime visited by trespassing reporter nephew Hanford (Harry Houdini), whom she prefers, in The Grim Game, 1919.