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The Fortune Cookie still plays as funny. Not as funny as “One, Two, Three,” his grandest farce, or the more celebrated “Some Like It Hot.”. Matthau makes it amusing. But there’s just a sliver of hope and the tiniest hint of “bittersweet” about it, something Wilder occasionally allowed into his screenplays. Read More.
The Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder, pairing for the seventh time with writing partner I.A.L. Diamond, brings us the blackest of black comedy in "The Fortune Cookie." The tale focuses on the travails of a TV cameraman (Jack Lemmon) who is injured while shooting a sporting event, and then inveigled into an insurance scam by his brother-in ...
"Explosively funny! A fine, dark, gag-filled hallucination" (The New York Times)! Powered by Walter Matthau's Oscar®-winning performance (1967, Best Supporti...
In the mid-60s Walter Matthau is one of the most popular stars on Broadway, but the cinema always reserves minor parts for him. It is then that Billy Wilder in The Fortune Cookie wants him as the protagonist, together with Jack Lemmon, as a fraudulent lawyer who exploits the modest incident that happened to his brother-in-law, convincing him to simulate a paralysis in order to be paid an ...
The Fortune Cookie. 1966 · 2 hr 6 min. TV-PG. Comedy · Romance. When a cameraman is clobbered during a football game, his brother-in-law advises to feign an injury ...
The Fortune Cookie (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
