See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave that was looking at her, and Wally that was listening…

• Director:Arthur Hiller
• Genre:Comedy / Crime
• Runtime:98 minutes

Cast

Richard Pryor : Wallace ‘Wally’ Karue
Gene Wilder : Dave Lyons
Joan Severance : Eve
Kevin Spacey : Kirgo
Alan North : Braddock

A blind man named Wally Karue (Pryor) and a deaf man named Dave Lyons (Wilder) meet when Wally applies for a job in Dave’s New York City concession shop. After a brief period of confusion and antagonism, Wally and Dave become friends. Dave reads lips and guides Wally when they travel, and Wally tells Dave about invisible sounds and what people say behind his back. At a local bar, Wally defeats a belligerent man in a fistfight with assistance from Dave, who uses clock-face directions to tell Wally where his opponent is. Dave hires Wally.

One morning, as Wally waits outside for the day’s newspapers, a man walks into Dave’s shop. When the man is approached by a beautiful woman named Eve (Severance), he surreptitiously removes a gold coin from a suitcase and places it in a box of coins sitting on the counter. The woman takes the suitcase and shoots the man in the stomach as Dave reads the information on a box of antacid pills. Dave neither sees nor hears the shooting, but he notices Eve’s legs as she leaves the shop. Wally, who heard the gunshot, walks into the shop and falls over the man’s dead body. Dave then rushes to help Wally and picks up the gun, which Eve left at the scene. When the police arrive, they find Dave and Wally huddled over the body with Dave holding the gun. Before they are arrested, Dave tells Wally to collect the coins from the box.

At the police station, Dave and Wally are interrogated by Captain Braddock (North), an experienced but callous detective who immediately becomes hostile to them and makes them his prime suspects. When Eve and her accomplice Kirgo (Spacey) arrive to bail them out, Wally recognizes Eve’s perfume and Dave recognizes her legs, but Braddock ignores them when they insist that she is the killer. Wishing to avoid Eve and Kirgo when they are released, Dave and Wally escape from the police station, but the criminals soon find them. Eve takes the coin from Wally’s pocket and telephones her boss Mr. Sutherland (Zerbe) for instructions, allowing Dave to learn the criminals’ plans by reading her lips. When Kirgo tries to kill Dave and Wally, they use the fistfighting method they learned in the bar to knock him unconscious. They then steal an unattended police car and drive away with Eve, Kirgo, and Braddock chasing them. Working together to guide the patrol car, Dave and Wally evade both the police and the criminals, but they accidentally launch the car onto a waterborne garbage barge. Read more

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