Harry O (TV Series)

Sound of Trumpets (1975)

David Janssen: Harry Orwell

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  When they tore down my house in San Diego to make an empty place for a new high rise, I felt they were trying to tell me something. So I decided to stay in Santa Monica. I like my neighbors. I like the little bar I was sitting in. I like the piano player. I liked the life. So I asked Betsy, the airline stewardess next door, if she knew any place I could find a house at the beach. She said, "next door to us; we're moving, too." So they moved, so I moved.

• Chuck Henry : Maybe I did the wrong thing. He came by here about a week ago, and I gave him six C's.

  Harry Orwell : What for?

  Chuck Henry : To get his horn out of hock.

  Harry Orwell : Six hundred dollars for a horn?

  Chuck Henry : This is not an ordinary horn. This is one of those horns like Gabriel blows.

• Harry Orwell : You playing games with me?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Perhaps. Off the record, Orwell, this does look like a setup.

  Harry Orwell : Yeah, and Sully's the patsy. Just suppose he called Hacktel and was invited here?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Then somebody would have a golden opportunity and a perfect alibi.

• Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  In every town there's always one spot that's a mecca for all true jazzmen, players, and buffs. This one was called Henny's Roost.

• Lt. K.C. Trench : I get in this morning and find a phone message on my desk informing me that a Mr. Harry Orwell is interested in talking to me about an elderly black trumpet player.

  Harry O : Yeah, he took my car and I want it back.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : By an intriguing coincidence, I too am interested in the whereabouts of just such a character, one Arthur Daniels, professional name Art Sully.

  Harry O : That's him.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : A convicted murderer who has violated parole. Why didn't you tell me about him yesterday when you reported the theft?

  Harry O : I thought I could handle it then. And I didn't know he had a gun.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : He has a gun?

  Harry O : And he's got my car. And I think he's drunk and he's driving my car.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : How many ways are there to violate your parole? Thanks, Orwell.

  Harry O : Hey, listen, is this gonna send him back?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Like a Billie Jean backhand.

• Ziggy : [Ziggy runs up to Harry's beach house with Sully's trumpet]  Harry! Look, baby, it's as good as new. Those kids you sent from the Scuba Club, they fished it out. Here, take it. You find Art and put him back together again.

  Harry Orwell : Why should I?

  Ziggy : Why? Because the whole thing started with Duke Ellington and Satchmo and W.C. Handy and Art Sully. They started jammin' in speakeasies and cheap nightclubs for drinks and tips. Somehow they gave the whole thing a dignity, started a whole new musical culture. Now it's a million-dollar empire, baby, computerized, manipulated, rock, soul,ballad, you name it. But the basis of anything that's good and true is still the blues. And I remember.

• Lt. K.C. Trench : That's right. But that's procedure. I have to follow through on procedure. You know that.

  Harry O : Procedure. You're not giving him a chance.

• Harry Orwell : A procedure? You want to go by the book this time you're gonna have a dead star on your hands. Named Ruthie Daniels.