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!
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.
- 7.2
- 1966
- Released
- 2h 5m
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. CimoliHarry Davis
Dr. KrugmanLauren Gilbert
Kincaid
Sig Ruman
Professor WinterhalterMaryesther Denver
Nurse
Judy Pace
Elvira
Helen Kleeb
Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist
Bartlett Robinson
Specialist #1
Ben Wright
Doctor
Dodie Heath
Nun
William Christopher
Interne (as Bill Christopher)Robert P. Lieb
Specialist #2Martin Blaine
Specialist #3
Herbie Faye
Maury - the Equipment Man
Billy Beck
Maury's AssistantLisa Linsky
Ginger Gingrich (as Lisa Jill)John Todd Roberts
Jeffrey GingrichKeith Jackson
CBS Football Announcer
Herbert Ellis
TV Director (as Herb Ellis)
Robert DoQui
Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
John Anderson
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Jim Brown
Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)Daniel Elam
Bar Patron (uncredited)Rudy Germane
Commuter (uncredited)Chester Jones
Cook (uncredited)Jon Silo
Tailor (uncredited)![The Fortune Cookie (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3PTtQLQgaO0/hqdefault.jpg)
Released
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- #shadowing
- #american football
- #brother-in-law
- #wheelchair
- #honesty
- #insurance fraud
- #cinematographer
- #fortune cookie
- #black and white
- #ex-wife
- #cleveland browns
- #cleveland, ohio
Reviews
Morality and cynicism not quite the bedfellows Wilder intended? Wilder's response to his previous film Kiss Me Stupid's criticism was intended to be a bitter attack on American morality, yet many critics of the time felt Wilder chickened out by sweetening the finale. If he actualy did this is obviously down to each individual viewer to decide, but in my case I just feel that it comes together n