Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

100 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie | Feb. 3, 1974

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 before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

100 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie | Feb. 3, 1974

Smile Jenny, You're Dead
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 before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Warner Bros. Television
Original title Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Directors Dick Moder, Jerry Thorpe
Writers Howard Rodman

Cast

David Janssen

as Harry Orwell

Andrea Marcovicci

as Jennifer English

John Anderson

as Col. John Lockport

Jodie Foster

as Liberty Cole

Howard Da Silva

as Lt. Humphrey Kenner

Tim McIntire

as Charley English

Zalman King

as Roy St. John

Clu Gulager

as Det. Milt Bosworth

Martin Gabel

as Meade De Ruyter

Barbara Leigh

as Mildred

Victor Argo

as Sgt. Richard Marum

Ellen Weston

as Julia

Harvey Jason

as Portrait Photographer

Chet Winfield

as Assistant Photographer