Question....

His wife and his "personal, private, executive secretary" shoot him from the window just as the daily cannon goes off at the lowering of the flag. And yes, Joe (as Leo Farnsworth) told his trainer about the two and he gets them to confess. Great movie, you should rent it instead of reading about it!

Well, it's been a long time since I've seen this, since it was at the movies (I took my grandmother) when it first came out, but I'll try to remember. I really did enjoy this movie and it stuck with me.

What happened was that LA Rams back-up quarterback, Joe Pendleton (Beatty) was removed from his body at the site of a accident by an overzealous angel (Buck Henry), but he was not supposed to die. Since his body had been cremated, they had to find another body for him and that's how he ended up as millionaire Leo Farnsworth. He had been murdered, but his body hadn't been discovered yet, so his time as Farnsworth was limited. The murderers were his unfaithful wife (Dyan Cannon) and his secretary (Charles Grodin) who were having an ill-concealed affair, and they apparently tried numerous times to do away with him. Their botched murder attempts (and these two characters) were supposed to be the comic elements of the movie. But when Farnsworth ended up in the well, they apparently finally succeeded, and that part of the movie ended and Joe Pendleton needed yet a new body.

That's when he became Tom(?) Jarrett, a LA Rams quarterback, and is finally given his chance to play in The Super Bowl, but loses his memory of Joe Pendleton...

I'm sure I told you more than you wanted to know, but that's what I remember of this aspect of the movie... BTW, I enjoyed this movie a lot, think it's well-worth watching, as is the original, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941), starring Robert Montgomery as a boxer who lives the same story.