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!”

7.2(340)19662h 5m

ComedyDramaCrime

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.

Director

Billy Wilder

Budget

$3.7M

Revenue

$6.8M

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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

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

Reviews

1 review

John Chard

6y ago

8.0

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 n...