1966 2h 5m Billy Wilder

The Fortune Cookie

Name: The Fortune Cookie
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Romance
Released: 1966
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West

★ 7.2 IMDb

Comedy Drama Crime Romance

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.

Writers Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Cast Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West

DP Joseph LaShelle

Music André Previn

Essays and Criticism

On Billy Wilder

Wilder the Humanist: New Perspectives on a Hollywood Legend by Kevin Lally, Cineaste A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past

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