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.

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

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