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!
1966 2 hours 5 minutesIs 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!
1966 2 hours 5 minutes
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.
19th October 1966
59 years ago
2 hours 5 minutes
Finishes at 4:54pm
$3,705,000 ($37,895,111 today)
Revenue $6,800,000
Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 5 nominations total
7.2/10
96%
63%
72%
76%
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