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!
19662h 5m
- Comedy
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB366 votes
Overview
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.
- Directed by
- Billy Wilder
- Written by
- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
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Cast
Jack Lemmon
Harry Hinkle
Walter Matthau
Willie Gingrich
Ron Rich
Boom Boom Jackson
Judi West
Sandy Hinkle
Cliff Osmond
Purkey
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $3.7M
- Revenue
- $6.8M
- Production companies
- Phalanx Productions, Jalem Productions, United Artists
