The Private Eyes
The Private Eyes

The Private Eyes

(1976)

Original Title: 半斤八兩

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Synopsis

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. Lee intercepts him and recovers the wallet, thus impressed Wong to hire him for the job.

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Rating

IMDB 7.0

Genres

Mystery & Thriller, Comedy

Runtime

1h 34min

Age rating

PG-13

Production country

Hong Kong

Director

Michael Hui

Cast

Michael Hui
Wong Yuk-see
Sam Hui Koon-Kit
Lee Kwok-kit
Ricky Hui
Pighead
Angie Chiu
Jacky
Richard Ng
Police Sergeant
Lo Wai-Chi
Mrs. Chow
Chu Mu
Mr. Chu
Lily Leung Shun-Yin
Mrs. Chu
Lai Siu-Fong
Mrs. Mok
Hsiao Yin-Fang
Manager Chan
Sek Kin
Head of gang of robbers
Melvin Wong Gam-Sam
Theatre robbery victim
Mars
Robber
Ko Hung
Biu
Jimmy Wang Yu
Actor in theatre movie