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The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 American black comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was the first film in which Jack Lemmon collaborated with Walter Matthau .
The Fortune Cookie: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West. A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
While taping a football game, cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) ends up slightly injured after a collision with star player "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich). When Hinkle's scheming brother-in-law ...
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The year The Fortune Cookie appeared, 1966, Stokely Carmichael issued his public appeal for African-Americans to embrace "black power." In regards to the turbulent Post-Civil Rights climate, some reviewers considered the benign, almost saintly Boom Boom Jackson a throwback to earlier African-American stereotypes.
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 so they can split the money from insurance claims. Subtitles: English. Starring: Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ron Rich Judi West Cliff Osmond. Directed by: Billy Wilder.
Written by John Chard on July 2, 2019. 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 ...
"Explosively funny! A fine, dark, gag-filled hallucination" (The New York Times)! Powered by Walter Matthau's Oscar®-winning performance (1967, Best Supporti...
Aug 4, 2018 · The original trailer in high definition of The Fortune Cookie directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich and Judi WestAKA:C...
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 ...
