The Fortune Cookie

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.

Cast

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

as Harry Hinkle

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

as Willie Gingrich

Ron Rich

Ron Rich

as Boom Boom Jackson

Judi West

Judi West

as Sandy Hinkle

Cliff Osmond

Cliff Osmond

as Purkey

Lurene Tuttle

Lurene Tuttle

as Mother Hinkle

Harry Holcombe

Harry Holcombe

as O'Brien

Les Tremayne

Les Tremayne

as Thompson

Marge Redmond

Marge Redmond

as Charlotte Gingrich

Ann Shoemaker

Ann Shoemaker

as Sister Veronica

Reviews

John Chard

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 obv...

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