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Aka: See No Evil Hear No Evil
A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees her. The police don't think they're credible witnesses, but the killers don't want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice.
Wally (Richard Pryor) is blind. Dave (Gene Wilder) is deaf. When Wally goes to work at Dave's New York newsstand, they find themselves in an unusual and dangerous situation when a man is murdered right in front of them. Unfortunately, Dave has his back turned, and Wally can't see! As fate would have it, they become suspects, and the bad guys will stop at nothing to keep them from blowing the lid off the case. Director Arthur Hiller once again reunites the formidable comic presences of Pryor and Wilder, who starred in his 1976 film SILVER STREAK.
The third pairing of comic actors Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was much less successful than their previous team-ups, Silver Streak(1976) and Stir Crazy (1980). Wilder plays Dave, the deaf proprietor of a newsstand and employer of blind gambler Wally (Pryor). When Wally's bookie is shot and killed at the stand, Dave and Wally are arrested for the crime. Since the deaf Dave had his back turned and didn't see the crime, while the blind Wally only heard it, the clues they have to offer the police are slim -- Dave's glimpse of a shapely leg and Wally's whiff of a perfume called Shalimar. It turns out the dead man wa...
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s in possession of a coin that he dropped into Dave's tip box, which Wally is now carrying. The coin contains a valuable microchip sought by crime baron Sutherland (Anthony Zerbe), for whom hired killer Eve (Joan Severance) and her British partner, Kirgo (Kevin Spacey), are working. Posing as lawyers, Eve and Kirgo spring Dave and Wally from jail, leading to a series of misadventures as the coin changes hands and the two sensory-challenged pals attempt to learn who has framed them and why.
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Wanneer een man wordt vermoord zijn er twee getuigen. Het probleem is echter dat de één doof is, en de ander blind. De politie denkt niet dat het geloofwaardige getuigen zijn, maar de moordenaars nemen het zekere voor het onzeker en willen de twee uit de weg ruimen. De twee moeten nu samenwerken om zichzelf te redden en de moordenaars te ontmaskeren.