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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Henstooth Video
Salesrank: 4162
Released: October 10, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two detectives are engaged to investigate the deaths of Lord and Lady Morley, but their authorization comes from the ghost of the late Lordship, and the manor house where they lived is peopled by very odd characters.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 10-OCT-2000
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Private Eyes:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: 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. There's an austere housekeeper, a snooty butler with compulsive twitches, a sexy upstairs maid, a deformed groomsman, and a buxom young heir to the estate, who of course is going to be in some state of undress before the movie is over. People get killed, their bodies disappear, Knotts and Conway wander aimlessly through secret passageways, dimly seeking some way out of this movie. Conway cowrote the script, so he gets most of the blame; Knotts was probably just happy to have the work. --Bret Fetzer
The Private Eyes Reviews:
Americana. Great Family Movie. 
2009-11-02 - This is one of the great comedy classics of all time. Your kids will love it and if they don't you should probably think about getting new kids because something is wrong with them. I'm just saying.
A Clasic Comedy.
2009-10-04 - Don Knotts and Tim Conway two of the best Comedy men in the bussiness, this timeless classic can be shared with the entire family as you watch them bumble there way to solve the mystery of Lord and Lady Morley's death. If your a fan of Don Knotts and Tim Conway you will love this film. I highly recommended it.
Great funny classic
2009-08-19 - I watched this movie with my family as a child. I am so glad I found a copy to share with my children. Classic Don Knotts/Tim Conway comedy. It's filmed at the Biltmore house in North Carolina. It's one of my favorites.
Private Eyes
2009-08-07 - I saw this a long tome ago and wanted to share it with my grandchildren after we saw The Apple Dumpling Gang. Fine video if you like the Don Knotts/Tim Conway duo.
Are you saying *I* killed Lord Morley?
2009-07-17 - Having first seen this movie when I was quite young and impressionable, and being a fan of the Disney live-action comedies from the 60's and 70's, I'm afraid my view towards it is hopelessly biased.
To put it simply: this is flat-out one of the most hilarious, loony, entertaining comedies I have ever seen. In my book, it's right up there with "Raising Arizona" for being a comedy that you can watch over and over again, and still laugh like a lunatic.
Don Knotts and Tim Conway are in fine form here, playing a couple of bumbling detectives who've been called to the scene of a murder in order to figure out whodunit. Surrounded by an insane cast of characters and thrust into absurd situations, the jokes and sight gags fly fast and furious.
The DVD includes a commentary track featuring the director, Lang Elliot, and Tim Conway. Most of the time, I find commentary tracks to be dull and pointless, but the stories these two share about the production of the movie are absolutely priceless to fans. There's not much else in the way of extras - no deleted scenes, etc. Frankly, though, if they ever come out with a "special edition" of this movie on DVD that presents it in widescreen and beefs up the extra features, I'll pay whatever they're asking.
Warning: If you've never seen this movie before, you may not find it all that funny on your first viewing, and you might think that those of us who love it are out of our minds. Trust me - this one grows on you. Give it a chance. Before long, you'll be spouting choice bits of nonsensical dialogue with your family and friends.
"If *you* killed Lord Morley, would you write and ask someone to find the killer?"
"Are you saying *I* killed Lord Morley?"
"No, I'm saying you kill me."
