See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) on Netflix
Dave Lyons is deaf and runs a New York concession shop. He hires Wally, who is blind. When a bookmaker is shot there, the police arrest the two men as suspects.
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Plot summary
Wally, who is blind, applies for work at the New York concession shop run by Dave, who is deaf, and Dave takes him on. While Wally is outside waiting for the day's papers, a bookmaker who is owed money walks in with a briefcase. A woman takes the briefcase and fires; Dave, his back turned, catches only a glimpse of her legs as she leaves. Wally, hearing the shot, comes inside and trips over the body, and Dave picks up the gun left behind. The police arrive, find them standing over the man with the weapon and arrest them. At the station, Captain Braddock and Lieutenant Gatlin question the pair, doubt them as witnesses and treat them as the chief suspects.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
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- Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor wrote the first screenplay and sold it to Columbia Pictures for $200,000 in 1984, then sued the studio for $10 million in damages after being denied a promised additional $500,000 payable if Pryor were cast, plus $25,000 per revision and five-percent profit.
- TriStar Pictures was looking to produce another film starring Wilder and Pryor, but Wilder would only agree to do See No Evil, Hear No Evil if he was allowed to re-write the script, and the studio agreed.
- Originally Jim Belushi was to be cast as the deaf man, before Wilder was hired.
