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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery is a film of genre Comedy directed by Dean Hargrove released in USA on 7 march 1975 with Gabriel Dell
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
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Add to a movie listThe Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery is a 1975 film starring former “Bowery Boys" members Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan, and Joyce Van Patten. The film is a spoof 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, .
An incompetent mail-order private eye (Dell), aided by a chicken hatchery owner, is called upon to solve the murder of the eye’s eccentric milkman (Gautier), who practices animal fetishes.
The film was written by Dell and Dean Hargrove and directed by Hargrove. Released by United Artists.
Actors
Gabriel Dell
(Malcolm)
Barbara Harris
(Miss Helen Fredericks)
Huntz Hall
(Deputy Roy)
Anjanette Comer
(Arlevia Jessup)
Jackie Coogan
(Detective Chief Anderson)
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