This is a typical Don Knotts comedy in the same caliber as "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken". I actually went to the theater to see this when it first came out and was surprised to see that it was filmed in a very familiar location, The Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C. Don Knotts is the overbearing lead detective as Tim Conway is the clumsy assistant trying to solve a homicide at the huge mansion. Don Knotts is more cast as the character of Mr.Furley in "Three's Company" than he is Barney Fife. Tim Conway is typical Tim from the Carol Burnette Show but it really is both of them together that makes this movie so funny. The movie is clean and would be very enjoyable by the whole family as these two goof-balls are hilarious.
The Private Eyes
1980
Action / Comedy / Mystery
The Private Eyes
1980
Action / Comedy / Mystery
Plot summary
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.
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Rest in Peace Don Knotts
What a FUN movie to watch!
To get Don Knotts and Tim Conway together in a haunted horror movie spoof was just a great treat to sit back, laugh, and enjoy the memorable interaction between these two kings of slap stick comedy. Both have great timing for slap stick comedy, and you just know that they are going to play off each others stupidity.
No disappointment here, just plenty of laughs and good memories. I can't wait to have grand children and sit them down to be entertained without the use of any computer graphics, violence, or blood and gore.
Don Knotts and Tim Conway remind me a lot of Abbot and Costello in their prime. The Private Eyes is a fun loving movie, with an endless reel of gag after gag, slap stick accident after accident, and you will probably shed a few tears of laughter before the movie ends. A must see for any age if you like two great comedians who make any scene special.
Just like Stan and Ollie
A rather lame plot is made up for in large degree with the comic talents of Don
Knotts and Tim Conway as a pair of visiting inept private eyes who get an
assignment from Scotland Yard to investigate the drowning death of Lord and
Lady Morley.
The Morleys have a house with all kinds of secret passages as they do in all
English murder mysteries the better for Knotts and Conway to get lost and
make fools of themselves. In fact the fatalities mount among the rather
gruesome looking staff the Morleys have as the two detectives try to figure
this all out.
Knotts and Conway are a latter day version of Laurel&Hardy with Conway as
the Laurel figure, dumb and he knows it with Knotts the Ollie figure, just as
dumb but thinks he's a genius. I can see Stan and Ollie doing this one and
probably doing it better.
Just about every haunted house gag there ever was is thrown into this film.
Knotts and Conway handle them well. For fans of these two indiividually and as a team.