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The Fortune Cookie

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The Fortune Cookie
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NR,2hrs 5min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1966
Director:
Billy Wilder
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich  ...more
Synopsis: The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is accidentally bulldozed by football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) during a Cleveland Browns game. Willie, Harry's brother-in-law, foresees an insurance-settlement bonanza, and he convinces Harry ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Notable for contriving the first -- and one of the best -- pairings of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, this acerbic, late-career Billy Wilder gem marries his penchant for hand-wringing morality plays with a dark, melancholy tone reminiscent of his glum masterpiece The Apartment, made six years earlier. The Fortune Cookie actually benefits from having a villain not quite as insidious as Fred MacMurray's ... Full Review
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Jack Lemmon
Harry Hinkle
Walter Matthau
Willie Gingrich
Ron Rich
Luther "Boom-Boom" Jackson
Cliff Osmond
Mr. Purkey
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