The Fortune Cookie
Billy Wilder / US, 1966 / 125 min.
Six years after The Apartment, his comedy about the mores of American business life, Billy Wilder took aim at American compensation culture. When camera man Harry Hinkle is slightly injured at a football game, shyster Willie Gingrich has visions of claiming millions of dollars in a personal injury suit. Verbal fireworks between Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau in their first performance together in a Wilder film.
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Director
Billy Wilder
Production year
1966
Country
US
Original title
The Fortune Cookie
Length
125 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
FRA or NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Sweet & Sour: The Films of Billy Wilder
The legendary screenwriter and Hollywood director Billy Wilder was a brilliant word artist. His Oscar-winning classics are brimming with irresistible and cynical humour: incredibly funny, bold and incisive.
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