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The Fortune Cookie
The Fortune Cookie
Director:Billy Wilder
Overview:
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
Release:
1966 / 10 / 19
Rating:
7.2
Genres & Subgenres:
Comedy
Tags:
Jack Lemmon
as
Harry Hinkle
Walter Matthau
as
Willie Gingrich
Cliff Osmond
as
Purkey
Lurene Tuttle
as
Mother Hinkle
Les Tremayne
as
Thompson
Ann Shoemaker
as
Sister Veronica
Ned Glass
as
Doc Schindler
Howard McNear
as
Mr. Cimoli
Sig Ruman
as
Professor Winterhalter
Bartlett Robinson
as
Specialist #1
Ben Wright
as
Doctor
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)