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Features • PAL In Theaters : 19 October, 1966 |
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The Fortune Cookie [Region 2] description Billy Wilder's insurance-scam comedy, written with partner I.A.L. Diamond, is one of the legendary filmmaker's surlier efforts. Were it not for the star-making performance of Walter Matthau (which won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), it might not have registered so strongly with audiences. Shot in a grimy black and white, the story begins as CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is injured on the sidelines of a football game when Cleveland Browns star Boom Boom Jackson (Ron Rich) accidentally barrels into him. Hinkle's all right, but his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law William Gingrich (Matthau), also known as "Whiplash Willie," has a lawsuit filed before Hinkle even wakes up at the hospital. Hinkle is reluctant to join in on the scheme, which involves staying in a wheelchair, until he realizes it may bring his ex-wife (Judi West) back, even though her eyes practically flash dollar signs at the thought of his case's settlement potential. Working on Hinkle's conscience, however, is a burgeoning friendship with Jackson, who feels horrible about the incident. Not as sure-footed or as brazenly funny as many other Wilder efforts, the film nevertheless boasts a comic turn by Matthau that is deliciously conniving and endlessly inventive. Wilder, Hollywood's most caustically funny blend of pessimist and optimist, doesn't even aim for balance here. He clearly loves Matthau's character above all others and lets him run the show. The Lemmon and Matthau franchise began here and would go on to include their reteaming for Wilder's films The Front Page and Buddy Buddy. --Robert Abele |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Excellent Acting Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau, Below Average Comedy |
| Excellent Acting Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau, also a superb directing by Billy Wylder.
It has some great scenes and a few good laughs although is considered a classic I grade this a B+ Average Comedy. Their acting was excellent and the beggining of a long, lustrous and profitable relationship, this movie is not too funny, compared to their best classics The Odd Couple, Some Like it Hot, Grumpy Old Men, ans sequels like The Odd Couple II, and Grumpier Old Men, nor Walter Matthau's Hopscotch, A Guide for the Married Man, Cactus Flower, or Jack Lemmon's The Out-of-Towners, The Apartment, How to Murder Your Wife, It Happened to Jane, Avanti, My Fellow Americans, and many more. The Fortune Cookie is at the level of Out at Sea and Front Page. If you are a Lemmon and/or Matthau fan is a must see otherwise buy one or all mention above you'd not regret it a bit, and would have hours of great laughs. [[ASIN:B00020HAXI Out to Sea]] [[ASIN:6305127700 The Odd Couple II]] [[ASIN:B0000507P8 The Odd Couple]] [[ASIN:B000FOPPC4 Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men]] [[ASIN:B0007QJ1Y8 The Front Page]] [[ASIN:B00005A06N Some Like It Hot]] [[ASIN:B00005LOLC Irma La Douce]] [[ASIN:B00005JL3W Hopscotch - Criterion Collection]] [[ASIN:B0000AUHQ1 The Out-of-Towners]] [[ASIN:B0000633R9 Cactus Flower]] How to Murder Your Wife A Guide for the Married Man Mister Roberts I.Q. Avanti! The Bad News Bears |
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