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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Directed byDean Hargrove
Written byDean Hargrove
Gabriel Dell
Produced byEdward K. Dodds
StarringGabriel Dell
Huntz Hall
Jackie Coogan
Joyce Van Patten
Barbara Harris
CinematographyWilmer C. Butler
Edited byBob Kagey
John Kaufman
Robert Kimble
Buddy Small
Music byDick DeBenedictis
Production
company
Strathmore Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • March 26, 1975 (1975-03-26)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery is a 1975 comedy-mystery film starring former "Bowery Boys" members Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan, and Joyce Van Patten. The film is a parody of the 1941 film noir The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart. The cast also includes Barbara Harris, Anjanette Comer, Will Geer, Sorrell Booke, Vincent Gardenia, Nita Talbot and Nicholas Colasanto. The film was written by Dell and Dean Hargrove and directed by Hargrove. It was released by United Artists.

Plot

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An incompetent mail-order private eye (Dell), aided by a chicken hatchery owner, is called upon to solve the murder of the mail-order private eye's nutty milkman (Gautier), who it is discovered had a secret life where he practiced various animal fetishes.

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