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 MatthauWillie Gingrich
- Jim BrownRunning Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Jack LemmonHarry Hinkle
- Ben WrightDoctor
- Noam PitlikMax
- Judi WestSandy Hinkle
- John AndersonAbraham Lincoln (uncredited)
- Robert DoQuiMan in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
- Billy BeckMaury's Assistant
- Les TremayneThompson
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