The Fortune Cookie
Comedy
Drama
Crime
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!
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.
1966-10-19
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Cast
Director
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon as Harry Hinkle
Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich
Ron Rich as Boom Boom Jackson
Judi West as Sandy Hinkle
Cliff Osmond as Purkey
Lurene Tuttle as Mother Hinkle
Harry Holcombe as O'Brien
Les Tremayne as Thompson
Marge Redmond as Charlotte Gingrich
Ann Shoemaker as Sister Veronica
Ned Glass as Doc Schindler
Howard McNear as Mr. Cimoli
Sig Ruman as Professor Winterhalter
Noam Pitlik as Max
Judy Pace as Elvira
Helen Kleeb as Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist
Bartlett Robinson as Specialist #1
Ben Wright as Doctor
Dodie Heath as Nun
William Christopher as Interne (as Bill Christopher)
Herbie Faye as Maury - the Equipment Man
Billy Beck as Maury's Assistant
Herbert Ellis as TV Director (as Herb Ellis)
Robert DoQui as Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
John Anderson as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Jim Brown as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)