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The Private Eyes (1980 film)

The Private Eyes
DVD cover
Directed byLang Elliott
Written byTim Conway
John Myhers
Produced byWanda Dell
Lang Elliott
StarringTim Conway
Don Knotts
Trisha Noble
CinematographyJacques Haitkin
Edited byPatrick M. Crawford
Fabien D. Tordjmann
Music byPeter Matz
Production
companies
Tri Star Pictures
The Private Eyes Partners Limited
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • April 17, 1980 (1980-04-17)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.3 million[1]
Box office$18,942,320 (U.S.)[2] or $8.1 million[3]

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.

  1. ^ Koetting, Christopher T. (2009), Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books, pp. 172, 188–190
  2. ^ "Advertisement". Variety. March 11, 1981. p. 21.
  3. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 292. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada

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