The Fortune Cookie

1966 • 2h 5m •

Comedy

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★ 7.2/10

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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.

"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!"

Top Billed 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

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J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic

2019-07-02

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...