See No Evil, Hear No Evil
MURDER! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. Now they're both wanted for it.
Country
Production
Budget
$18 000 000
Revenue
$46 908 987
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Marvin Worth, Burtt Harris, Earl Barret, Arne Sultan
Operator
Composer
Artist
Robert Gundlach, Alan Kimmel, Alan Kimmel
Audition
Editing
Robert C. Jones
All team (115)
All team (115)
Short description
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
What's left behind the scenes
- While preparing for the role, Gene Wilder visited an association for people with hearing impairments in New York. There, he met speech therapist Karen Webb, who later became his fourth wife.
- While preparing for the role, Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman, 1933-2016) visited a special association for people with hearing impairments in New York. There he met speech therapist Karen Webb, who later became his 4th wife.
- Preparing for his role, Richard Pryor visited the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, where he was shown how to authentically portray a blind person using a cane, and where he carefully observed blind individuals.
- While preparing for the role, Richard Pryor visited the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, where he was shown how to realistically play a blind person with a cane, and also observed blind people closely.
- Gene Wilder twice refused to star in the film, but his agent eventually persuaded him to meet with producers at TriStar Pictures, who asked him to rewrite the script with him and Richard Pryor. Wilder feared the film would mock people with disabilities, but he began receiving letters from such people about how great it would be to make a film where people with disabilities were the main characters.
- Gene Wilder refused to star in the film twice, but his agent eventually persuaded him to meet with the bosses of TriStar Pictures, who asked him to rewrite the script with his participation and that of Richard Pryor (1940-2005). Gene Wilder feared the film would be a mockery of people with disabilities, but he met with them during the preparation for the role and learned that people with disabilities also have a sense of humor. In addition, he began receiving letters from people with disabilities saying how great it would be to make a film where people with disabilities are the main characters, not secondary ones.
- Gene Wilder twice refused to star in the film, but eventually his agent persuaded him to meet with the producers of TriStar Pictures, who asked him to rewrite the script to include himself and Richard Pryor. Wilder feared that the film would turn into a mockery of people with disabilities, but he began receiving letters from such individuals expressing how wonderful it would be to have a movie where people with disabilities were the main characters.
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