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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!

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The Fortune Cookie — Plot

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
  • Runtime
  • 125 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy
  • Director
  • Billy Wilder

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The Fortune Cookie — Cast

Jack Lemmon photo Jack Lemmon Harry Hinkle Walter Matthau photo Walter Matthau Willie Gingrich Ron Rich photo Ron Rich Boom Boom Jackson Judi West photo Judi West Sandy Hinkle Cliff Osmond photo Cliff Osmond Purkey Lurene Tuttle photo Lurene Tuttle Mother Hinkle Harry Holcombe photo Harry Holcombe O'Brien Les Tremayne photo Les Tremayne Thompson

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