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 .
1-410: 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. This film article about a 1970s comedy film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an American film of
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