Smile Jenny, You're Dead

TV Movie
1974
1h 40m

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6.8/10

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Crime Drama

An ex-cop protects his ex-partner's supermodel daughter when she becomes the target of an obsessed psychopath who kills the men intimately involved with her.An ex-cop protects his ex-partner's supermodel daughter when she becomes the target of an obsessed psychopath who kills the men intimately involved with her.An ex-cop protects his ex-partner's supermodel daughter when she becomes the target of an obsessed psychopath who kills the men intimately involved with her.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

316

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
In a 2006 interview, Andrea Marcovicci looks back fondly at David Janssen, saying, "I just couldn't wait to kiss him. I was 25 years old and I was so in love with him."

Quotes
Liberty Cole: You lead a funny kind of life. You don't even have a car.
Harry Orwell: I have a car.
Liberty Cole: Then why don't you use it?
Harry Orwell: It's gonna cost me about $300 to get the transmission rebuilt and I'm thinking about it.
Liberty Cole: You broke now?
Harry Orwell: [chuckles softly] That's not what I'm talking about. It's a way of life.

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Follows Harry O: Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On (1973)

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If at first you don't succeed...

"Smile Jenny.." was the second pilot for the "Harry-O" TV series (the first pilot, shown almost a year earlier was "Harry-O: Such Dust as Dreams are Made On"), and convinced ABC to pick up Harry-O as weekly show. A lot of economies were taken on this 2nd outing; less location shooting at the north Santa Monica (its funny the producers then set the show for most of the first season in San Diego, and then moved it back to LA for the last 6 first season episodes, and all of the second season) beach hut, fewer "name" guest stars, save Clu Gallagher (who seemed to pop up everywhere in the 70's), and a simple plot: keeping a young woman alive. This 2nd pilot was far inferior to the first, as it really doesn't delve into Harry's character (he was a likeable curmundgeon in the first pilot, as well as the show) to the degree of the first movie. This is more of a simple good guy-bad guy story. That being said, it must have done something to change the minds of ABC exec's, who then green-lited the show (truely the best TV PI show ever) which appeared in the fall of '74, and ran until August '76.