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.

Comedy Drama Crime

Jack Lemmon

Walter Matthau

(Willie Gingrich)

Ron Rich

(Boom Boom Jackson)

Judi West

Cliff Osmond

Lurene Tuttle

(Mother Hinkle)

Harry Holcombe

Les Tremayne

Marge Redmond

(Charlotte Gingrich)

Ann Shoemaker

(Sister Veronica)

Ned Glass

(Doc Schindler)

Archie Moore

Howard McNear

Harry Davis

Lauren Gilbert

Sig Ruman

(Professor Winterhalter)

Noam Pitlik

Maryesther Denver

Judy Pace

Helen Kleeb

(Law Firm Switchboard Operator and Receptionist)

Bartlett Robinson

(Specialist #1)

Ben Wright

Dodie Heath

William Christopher

(Interne (as Bill Christopher))

Robert P. Lieb

(Specialist #2)

Martin Blaine

(Specialist #3)

Herbie Faye

(Maury - the Equipment Man)

Billy Beck

(Maury's Assistant)

Lisa Linsky

(Ginger Gingrich (as Lisa Jill))

John Todd Roberts

(Jeffrey Gingrich)

Keith Jackson

(CBS Football Announcer)

Herbert Ellis

(TV Director (as Herb Ellis))

Robert DoQui

(Man in Bar (as Bob Doqui))

John Anderson

(Abraham Lincoln (uncredited))

Jim Brown

(Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited))

Daniel Elam

(Bar Patron (uncredited))

Rudy Germane

(Commuter (uncredited))

Chester Jones

(Cook (uncredited))

Chuck Schodowski

(Stadium Cameraman (uncredited))

Jon Silo

(Tailor (uncredited))