The Fortune Cookie
Is he a spy? A security risk? Is he unfaithful? Or is he a nice, normal shnook - out to make a million bucks by sheer accident!
Comedy Drama Crime
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. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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Cast
Ron Rich
Boom Boom Jackson
Harry Holcombe
O'Brien
Jack Lemmon
Harry Hinkle
Cliff Osmond
Purkey
Ned Glass
Doc Schindler
Ben Wright
Doctor
William Christopher
Interne (as Bill Christopher)
Herbert Ellis
TV Director (as Herb Ellis)
Howard McNear
Mr. Cimoli
Helen Kleeb
Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist
Herbie Faye
Maury - the Equipment Man
Robert DoQui
Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
Lurene Tuttle
Mother Hinkle
Dodie Heath
Nun
Sig Ruman
Professor Winterhalter
Judy Pace
Elvira
Jim Brown
Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marge Redmond
Charlotte Gingrich
Noam Pitlik
Max
Walter Matthau
Willie Gingrich
Judi West
Sandy Hinkle
Les Tremayne
Thompson
Bartlett Robinson
Specialist #1
John Anderson
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Ann Shoemaker
Sister Veronica
Billy Beck
Maury's Assistant