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!
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
Jack Lemmon
Harry Hinkle
Lurene Tuttle
Mother Hinkle
Helen Kleeb
Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist
Marge Redmond
Charlotte Gingrich
Sig Ruman
Professor Winterhalter
Cliff Osmond
Purkey
Harry Holcombe
O'Brien
Noam Pitlik
Max
Judy Pace
Elvira
Herbert Ellis
TV Director (as Herb Ellis)
Bartlett Robinson
Specialist #1
John Anderson
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Ann Shoemaker
Sister Veronica
William Christopher
Interne (as Bill Christopher)
Billy Beck
Maury's Assistant
Ned Glass
Doc Schindler
Howard McNear
Mr. Cimoli
Ben Wright
Doctor
Dodie Heath
Nun
Robert DoQui
Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui)
Jim Brown
Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ron Rich
Boom Boom Jackson
Judi West
Sandy Hinkle
Les Tremayne
Thompson
Herbie Faye
Maury - the Equipment Man
Walter Matthau
Willie Gingrich