The Fortune Cookie

About The Fortune Cookie

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.

Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 comedy film. Released in October 1966, it runs 125 minutes.

The film is filed under surveillance, wheelchair, private investigator, and ex-wife.

Jack Lemmon stars as Harry Hinkle, Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich, Ron Rich as Boom Boom Jackson, and Judi West as Sandy Hinkle. The screenplay is by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. American members can watch it on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Double Indemnity, The Conversation, and Three Colors: Red make useful companions to The Fortune Cookie, all filed under black and white, insurance fraud, and shadowing. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 365 votes and it carries a NR rating.