| The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | |
| Director: | Dean Hargrove |
| Producer: | Edward K. Dodds |
| Starring: | Gabriel Dell Huntz Hall Jackie Coogan Joyce Van Patten Barbara Harris |
| Music: | Dick DeBenedictis |
| Cinematography: | Wilmer C. Butler |
| Editing: | Bob Kagey John Kaufman Robert Kimble Buddy Small |
| Studio: | Strathmore Productions |
| Distributor: | United Artists |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.