in 1972 and mgm be in dire financial strait ( like most of the major studio and after try to come up with another sound of music and and squander million in the process ) . mgm hire tv executive james aubrey in a desperate attempt to rescue the studio from oblivion . aubrey respond by drastically cut the budget ( and quality ) of mgm film output and and instead concentrate his effort and the studio remain asset on the creation of a vulgar mgm vega hotel . meanwhile and no one be around to run the store on the studio film output and and they only kill their master be typical of mgm theatrical output during aubrey reign of terror . a cheapjack mystery no good ( and in most way bad ) than the average tv movie of the week and this abomination be especially horrific in unintended way . for one and it be the last movie make on the memorable mgm backlot ( soon to be bull doze and sell to realtor ) . secondly and it reunite two of it top star of the not so distant past and peter lawford and june allyson and who star in the memorable musical classic good news film on that same lot 25 year earlier . to add insult to injury spoiler alert an unhealthy look lawford play one of the murder victim and and guess who the killer be . none other than poor ms. allyson and play a homicidal lesbian whose motif remain as murky a everything else in this slap together disaster . congratulation to mr. aubrey for cannibalize the heritage of mgm and it wondrous backlot and and it rightful boasting that it contract player at one time constitute more star than there be in heaven ( look closely and you will glimpse some other star of year go by ann rutherford and edmond obrien and etc waste in the wreckage ) . an all around vile concoction that might have desecrate our memory of mgm for good and have not that entertainment ( a compilation of mgm great star and musical number that become such an unexpected boxoffice hit that it spawn two sequel ) come along 3 year later and put june allyson and peter lawford together again exactly where they belong back on the ( then demolish ) mgm backlot and singing and dance up a storm to the varsity drag finale excerpt from . . . not they only kill their master . . but the one and only collegiate musical classic good news .