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The Private Eyes (1980)

The Private Eyes poster
Directed by
Lang Elliott
Genre
comedy film, buddy film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 48 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two bumbling American detectives work for Scotland Yard and stumble their way through a mystery. The film follows their clumsy efforts to solve a case while causing chaos along the way.

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What happens

The Private Eyes is a 1980 American comedy mystery film starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts. The pair play bumbling American detectives who work for Scotland Yard. It was filmed at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The film was directed by Lang Elliott and was the final pairing of Conway and Knotts, not counting their cameos as two California Highway Patrol officers in the 1983 film Cannonball Run II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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