The Fortune Cookie (1966)

NR10/19/1966Comedy2h 5m
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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!

Overview

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Top Billed Cast

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    Jack Lemmon

    Harry Hinkle

  2. Cast 1

    Walter Matthau

    Willie Gingrich

  3. Cast 1

    Ron Rich

    Boom Boom Jackson

  4. Cast 1

    Judi West

    Sandy Hinkle

  5. Cast 1

    Cliff Osmond

    Purkey

  6. Cast 1

    Lurene Tuttle

    Mother Hinkle

  7. Cast 1

    Harry Holcombe

    O'Brien

  8. Cast 1

    Les Tremayne

    Thompson

  9. Cast 1

    Marge Redmond

    Charlotte Gingrich

Morality and cynicism not quite the bedfellows Wilder intended? Wilder's response to his previous film Kiss Me Stupid's criticism was intended to be a bitter attack on American morality, yet many critics of the time felt Wilder chickened out by sweetening the finale. If he actualy did this is obviously down to each individual viewer to decide, but in my case I just feel that it comes together nicely to finish off a very funny and sharp Wilder film. Camerman Harry Henkle is working the sidelines filming a Browns/Vikings game when he is flattened by running back Boom Boom Jackson and taken...