Magic Tricks

Pop culture and all that, right? Ben Johnson, David Copperfield, and Jamie Lee all on the same train, in Terror Train (1980). Copperfield in his infancy, with all the showbiz pizazz already fired up. His coin/cigarette trick to wow Curtis, as Ben comments that he knows how Copperfield pulled it off but that they are "sworn to secrecy." Earlier, Ben came in contact with the trickster in Groucho mask before the med student got impaled with a sword and put under the train to be squashed. Copperfield and his card tricks and levitation showstopper...all within the cramped confines of a "party train", not particularly delighted that this is where his act is right now: amateur hour. The film even puts out the possibility that he could actually be the killer...ohh, but his magician's assistant might have something to say about that!