A rather lame plot is made up for in large degree with the comic talents of Don
Knotts and Tim Conway as a pair of visiting inept private eyes who get an
assignment from Scotland Yard to investigate the drowning death of Lord and
Lady Morley.
The Morleys have a house with all kinds of secret passages as they do in all English murder mysteries the better for Knotts and Conway to get lost and make fools of themselves. In fact the fatalities mount among the rather gruesome looking staff the Morleys have as the two detectives try to figure this all out.
Knotts and Conway are a latter day version of Laurel&Hardy with Conway as the Laurel figure, dumb and he knows it with Knotts the Ollie figure, just as dumb but thinks he's a genius. I can see Stan and Ollie doing this one and probably doing it better.
Just about every haunted house gag there ever was is thrown into this film. Knotts and Conway handle them well. For fans of these two indiividually and as a team.
The Morleys have a house with all kinds of secret passages as they do in all English murder mysteries the better for Knotts and Conway to get lost and make fools of themselves. In fact the fatalities mount among the rather gruesome looking staff the Morleys have as the two detectives try to figure this all out.
Knotts and Conway are a latter day version of Laurel&Hardy with Conway as the Laurel figure, dumb and he knows it with Knotts the Ollie figure, just as dumb but thinks he's a genius. I can see Stan and Ollie doing this one and probably doing it better.
Just about every haunted house gag there ever was is thrown into this film. Knotts and Conway handle them well. For fans of these two indiividually and as a team.