The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Is he a spy? A security risk? Is he unfaithful? Or is he a nice, normal shnook - out to make a million bucks by sheer accident!
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
- Date of release
- 1966-10-19
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (366)
- Runtime
- 2h 5m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Billy Wilder
Casting
- Jack Lemmon — Harry Hinkle
- Walter Matthau — Willie Gingrich
- Ron Rich — Boom Boom Jackson
- Judi West — Sandy Hinkle
- Cliff Osmond — Purkey
- Lurene Tuttle — Mother Hinkle
- Harry Holcombe — O'Brien
- Les Tremayne — Thompson
- Marge Redmond — Charlotte Gingrich
- Ann Shoemaker — Sister Veronica
- Ned Glass — Doc Schindler
- Archie Moore — Mr. Jackson
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