
Actually a 1918 French movie, L'Ame du Bronze, that Houdini's company picked up for USA distribution. Losing his fiancée, Nanette, to French Capt.

Georges Le Faure, Henry Roussel
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*The Soul of Bronze*, or *L’Ame du Bronze*, is a relic of a bygone era when cinema pulsed with the raw, unpolished fervor of its pioneers. Directed by Georges Le Faure and penned by the dual minds of Henry Roussel, this 1918 French film, distributed in the United States by Harry Houdini’s nascent studio, is a m...


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" *The Soul of Bronze*, or *L’Ame du Bronze*, is a relic of a bygone era when cinema pulsed with the raw, unpolished fervor of its pioneers. Directed by Georges Le Faure and penned by the dual minds of Henry Roussel, this 1918 French film, distributed in the United States by Harry Houdini’s nascent studio, is a masterclass in silent storytelling. It marries the mechanical precision of industrial modernity with the visceral heat of human emotion, creating a narrative that is as much a produ..."


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