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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!
7.2(368)19662h 5m
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.
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder,I. A. L. Diamond
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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
Marge Redmond
Charlotte Gingrich
Ann Shoemaker
Sister Veronica
Ned Glass
Doc Schindler
Archie Moore
Mr. Jackson
Howard McNear
Mr. Cimoli
Harry Davis
Dr. Krugman
Lauren Gilbert
Kincaid
Sig Ruman
Professor Winterhalter
Noam Pitlik
Max
Maryesther Denver
Nurse
Judy Pace
Elvira
Helen Kleeb
Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist
Bartlett Robinson
Specialist #1
Ben Wright
Doctor
Dody Heath
Nun
William Christopher
Interne (as Bill Christopher)
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Crew
Directing
- Billy WilderDirector
Writing
- Billy WilderWriter
- I. A. L. DiamondWriter
Production
- I. A. L. DiamondProducer
- Doane HarrisonProducer
- Billy WilderProducer
- Lynn StalmasterCasting
Camera
- Joseph LaShelleDirector of Photography
Editing
- Daniel MandellEditor
Sound
- André PrevinOriginal Music Composer
- Robert MartinSound Designer
Art
- Robert LuthardtArt Direction
- Edward G. BoyleSet Decoration
Crew
- Roy JensonStunts