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The Fortune Cookie
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.
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Cast
Jack LemmonHarry Hinkle
Walter MatthauWillie Gingrich
Ron RichBoom Boom Jackson
Judi WestSandy Hinkle
Cliff OsmondPurkey
Lurene TuttleMother Hinkle
Harry HolcombeO'Brien
Les TremayneThompson
Marge RedmondCharlotte Gingrich
Ann ShoemakerSister Veronica
Ned GlassDoc Schindler- Archie MooreMr. Jackson
Howard McNearMr. Cimoli- Harry DavisDr. Krugman
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Release date
- October 19, 1966
- Runtime
- 2h 5m
- Budget
- $3.7M
- Box office
- $6.8M worldwide
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- Phalanx Productions, Jalem Productions, United Artists
