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 5mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Crime
- Comedy
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 19, 1966
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Jack Lemmon,Walter Matthau,Ron Rich,Judi West,Cliff Osmond,Lurene Tuttle,Harry Holcombe,Les Tremayne,Marge Redmond,Ann Shoemakerand 30 more
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder,I. A. L. Diamond
- Cinematography
- Joseph LaShelle
- Music
- André Previn
- Budget
- $3,705,000
- Revenue
- $6,800,000
- IMDb
- tt0060424