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  1. The Fortune Cookie. 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 is the first film on which Jack Lemmon collaborated with Walter Matthau. Matthau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

  2. Cunningham, en route to Cincinnati to visit dying uncle, gets trapped in the toilet on account of a faulty lock. The car is hitched to another train. Mrs. Cunningham winds up in San Bernadino California. By this time, the uncle is dead and she's cut out of the will, so she sues the railroad for damages.

  3. The Fortune Cookie (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Willie Gingrich: Ron Rich ... Luther 'Boom Boom' Jackson:

  4. Jack Lemmon. Harry Hinkle. Walter Matthau. Willie Gingrich. Ron Rich. Luther Jackson. Rate Now. Leave a Review. The Fortune Cookie is a comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, featuring Jack Lemmon as a cameraman injured during a football game and Walter Matthau as his unscrupulous brother-in-law who concocts a fraudulent insurance claim.

  5. Jun 14, 2023 · From the lecherous neighbor in Strangers When We Meet (1960), good guy in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), bad guy in Charade (1963) and Mirage (1965) and tetchy arrogant analyst in Fail Safe (1964), as if undergoing metamorphosis he creates the slimy, grouchy, crouchy, greedy lawyer duping his brother-in-law in Billy Wilder’s too-obvious satire The Fortune Cookie, beating the top-billed Jack ...

  6. 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 what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

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  8. The Fortune Cookie. By Michael on Feb 5, 2014 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque. The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder, 1966) CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) gets injured when football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) runs into him while he is covering a Browns game at Cleveland Stadium. Harry's injuries are minor, but his conniving ...

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