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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Fortune Cookie
1966
***
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle

In their first collaboration, Jack Lemmon is an injured TV cameraman and Walter Matthau is his cunning brother-in-law who wants to exploit the situation to scam \$1M from the insurance company. This is a sharply written but disappointingly static one-room comedy. Matthau won an Oscar for his performance.