Smile Jenny You're Dead (1974/TV )

Smile Jenny You're Dead (1974/TV )Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn't mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car ("It gives a man a chance to think"), he's on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal's son in law. It won't be the only time the killer strikes

blackmail and murder

Now this is a smackdown

a nifty film noir thriller that Time deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes

Promise is the single most honored TV movie in history

In the process he ruins his partner

with songs from the Kern-Harbaugh stage musical comedy largely intact

a rib-tickler of societal foibles and follies given spirited direction by Vincente Minnelli and featuring a full dance card of deft badinage

who wins his heart and changes his mind in A Kiss in the Dark

The only hitch in his plan is Orville Hutchmeyer (Tige Andrews)

the movie received four Oscar® nominations - Best Picture

is heartbroken when prima ballerina La Darina arrives to rival her idol

Billed sixth but given much screen time in the film's first hour