In addition, during the second half of the 1970s Channing played a mischievous car thief in Jerry Schatzberg's 1976 dramedy "Sweet Revenge" (which competed at the Cannes Film Festival), Joseph Bologna's love interest in the disaster film spoof "The Big Bus" (also 1976), Peter Falk's secretary in the 1978 Neil Simon film "The Cheap Detective", and real-life deaf stuntwoman and (still current) female land speed record holder Kitty O'Neil in the TV movie "Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story" (1979).