The Private Eyes (1976 film)
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| Traditional | 半斤八兩 |
| Simplified | 半斤八两 |
| Mandarin | Bàn Jīn Bā Liǎng |
| Cantonese | Bun3 Gan1 Baat3 Leong2 |
| Directed by | Michael Hui |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow |
| Written by | Michael Hui |
| Starring |
Michael Hui Samuel Hui Ricky Hui |
| Music by | Samuel Hui The Lotus |
| Cinematography | Cheung Yiu-cho |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung |
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Golden Harvest
Hui's Film Production |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
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Release date
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Running time
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94 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$8,531,700 |
| The Private Eyes 半斤八兩 |
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| Studio album by Samuel Hui | ||||
| Released | 23 December 1976 | |||
| Genre | Cantopop | |||
| Language | Cantonese | |||
| Label | PolyGram | |||
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The Private Eyes is a 1976 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring his brothers, Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui, and also starring Shih Kien and Richard Ng in his second film role. John Woo was the production designer and also co-director though he was uncredited.Sammo Hung served as the film's action director and Jackie Chan was also a stuntman. This is the third film of the Hui Brothers and it is the first film that established the Hui Brothers' comedies internationally.
The film revolves around the exploits of a detective agency in Hong Kong called Mannix Private Detective Agency. It is headed by private detective Wong Yeuk-sze (Michael Hui) with his emotionally drained assistant Puffy (Ricky Hui). Meanwhile, Lee Kwok-kit (Samuel Hui), a kung fu expert, who works at a Vitasoy plant factory and spends most of the time doing kung fu tricks to impress a girl, ultimately loses his job. Seeking to find another line of work, Lee attempts to joins Wong's detective agency. Despite Lee's impression with his kung fu talent which involves his snatching trick, Wong was not impressed. Then, as it appears that Lee would not get the job, Wong discovers that his wallet was missing and was presumed stolen by one bystander who bumped into them, which led to a scene where Wong fights the thief in the kitchen using sausage nunchaku as a weapon. Wong's onslaught backfires, and just as the thief walks away, Lee intercepts him and recovers the wallet, thus impressed Wong to hire him for the job. In truth, the wallet was in Wong's possession the whole time; they attacked an innocent bystander and stole his wallet.
The trio work together to serve their clients in many situations. For example, they were hired by a woman to capture photos of his husband's affair with another woman so she can get reward money at court. Later, they were also hired by a supermarket owner to foil an upcoming shoplifting case which leads to a scene where Lee puts his kung fu skills in use to fight thugs.
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