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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Country
Production
Budget
$3 705 000
Box office
$6 800 000
Director
Actors
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle, Harry Holcombe, Les Tremayne, Marge Redmond, Ann Shoemaker
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Daniel Mandell
Whole Team (11)
Whole Team (11)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The idea for the film came to Billy Wilder (1906-2002) when he saw a player bump into the camera operator on the sidelines during a football match.
- Work on the film had to be interrupted for several weeks when Walter Matthau (1920-2000) suffered a seizure. By the time he recovered, he had lost 15 kilograms, and to hide this, he was forced to continue filming wearing a cloak.
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