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Submit Your ReviewThe British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is ...more
Year: 1966 | Running Time: 125 minutes
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Notable for contriving the first -- and one of the best -- pairings of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, this acerbic, late-career Billy Wilder gem marries his penchant for hand-wringing morality plays with a dark, melancholy tone reminiscent of his glum masterpiece The Apartment, made six years earlier. The Fortune Cookie actually benefits from having a villain not quite as insidious as Fred MacMurray's J.D. Sheldrake: Matthau's affable shyster Willie Gingrich. Despite his unrepentant ...more
- Jack Lemmon - Harry Hinkle
- Walter Matthau - Willie Gingrich
- Ron Rich - Luther "Boom-Boom" Jackson
- Cliff Osmond - Mr. Purkey
- Judi West - Sandy Hinkle
- Robert DoQui - Man in Bar
- Keith Jackson - Football Announcer
- Ben Wright - Specialist
- Jon Silo - Tailor
- Harry Holcombe - O'Brien
- Lurene Tuttle - Mother Hinkle
- Les Tremayne - Thompson
- Marge Redmond - Charlotte Gingrich
- Noam Pitlik - Max
- Billy Wilder - Director
- Billy Wilder - Producer
- Billy Wilder - Screenwriter
- I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter
- Robert Luthardt - Art Director
- I.A.L. Diamond - Associate Producer
- Doane Harrison - Associate Producer
- Lynn Stalmaster - Casting
- Paula Giokaris - Costume Designer
- Charles Arrico - Costume Designer
- Jack N. Reddish - First Assistant Director
- Dan Mandell - Editor
- Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score)
- Joseph La Shelle - Cinematographer
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