The Fortune Cookie poster
Screenplay Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Director Billy Wilder

The Fortune Cookie

Tagline: 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!

Release Date: 1966-10-19

Duration: 125 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Walter Matthau
    Willie Gingrich
  • Jim Brown
    Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jack Lemmon
    Harry Hinkle
  • Ben Wright
    Doctor
  • Noam Pitlik
    Max
  • Judi West
    Sandy Hinkle
  • John Anderson
    Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
  • Robert DoQui
    Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
  • Billy Beck
    Maury's Assistant
  • Les Tremayne
    Thompson