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The music video for "Smooth Criminal" premiered on MTV on October 13, 1988. The video is the centerpiece of the 1988 film "Moonwalker". The 1930s influenced setting and Jackson's white suit and fedora pays tribute to the Fred Astaire musical comedy film "The Band Wagon". In the video, Jackson and the dancers perform an "anti-gravity lean" that appears physically impossible.