The Fortune Cookie (1966)
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!
125 min
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.
- Release date
- October 19, 1966
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $3,705,000
- Box office
- $6,800,000
Trailer
Cast
- Jack Lemmon as Harry Hinkle
- Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich
- Ron Rich as Luther 'Boom Boom' Jackson
- Judi West as Sandy Hinkle
- Cliff Osmond as Chester Purkey
- Lurene Tuttle as Mother Hinkle
- Harry Holcombe as O'Brien
- Les Tremayne as Thompson
- Lauren Gilbert as Kincaid
- Marge Redmond as Charlotte Gingrich
Crew
- Billy Wilder · Director
- Billy Wilder · Writer
- I.A.L. Diamond · Writer
- Billy Wilder · Producer
- André Previn · Composer
- Joseph LaShelle · Cinematographer
- Daniel Mandell · Editor
- Lynn Stalmaster · Casting director