

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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.7M
- Box office
- $6.8M
- Language
- English
- shadowing
- brother-in-law
- wheelchair
- honesty
- insurance fraud
- cinematographer
- fortune cookie
- private investigator
- black and white
- surveillance
- ex-wife
- man in wheelchair
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR19 Oct 1966
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU18 May 1967
BrazilBR
- Physical1017 Oct 2007
FranceFR
- TheatricalU31 May 1967
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1216 Dec 1966
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG16 Jun 1967
ItalyIT
- Theatrical21 Dec 1966
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The Fortune Cookie was released on 19 October 1966.
Audience reviews
1- J8/10
John Chard
7/2/2019
Morality and cynicism not quite the bedfellows Wilder intended? Wilder's response to his previous film Kiss Me Stupid's criticism was intended to be a bitter attack on American morality, yet many critics of the time felt Wilder chickened out by sweetening the finale. If he actualy did this is obviously down to each individual viewer to decide, but in my case I just feel that it comes together nicely to finish off …
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