Three Legs of the Fryer

Earliest known poster for Three Legs of the Fryer.

Three Legs of the Fryer is a 1975 American political animal rights film about a bookish CIA poultry researcher (Robert Redford) who comes back from lunch after developing a viable three-legged chicken to discover his co-worker (Tyson Foods) murdered.

Tagline

His CIA code name is Chicken. In the next seventy-two hours, almost everyone will try to cook him.

Quotations

"okay, when something is marked as "white meat, Chicken flavor" what the hell is that?"

"Well dear, you see, when the chicken industry and the organic chemical industry love each other very much ..."

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