THE MANCHU EAGLE MURDER
MYSTERY CAPER-1975-Malcolm (Gabriel Dell who co-wrote the
screenplay), a chicken farmer turned private investigator gets
involved with something called “The Manchu Eagle” after Oscar
(Dick Gautier), his milkman is killed by a bow and arrow. Malcolm
talks in over serious cliched dialogue in this obvious take off on
THE MALTESE FALCON. He and his assistant (Sorrell Brooke) encounter dopey Big Daddy (Vincent Gardenia) who keeps his daughter
Arlevia (Anjanette Comer from THE BABY) in hiding. He has a
hypochondriac wife (Joyce Van Patten) and a pill popping doctor (Will
Geer). To top it all off Jackie Coogan and Huntz Hall (Dell's ex-Bowery Boys-Dead End Kids comrade) are cops! It's
not very funny. Director Dean Hargrove was later an executive
producer of TV shows (DIAGNOSIS: MURDER, McBRIDE, JANE DOE).
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