Billy Wilder produced a great film and also wrote this screen play which featured Jack Lemmon, ( Harry Hinkle) who was a TV Camera man working on a football field and is accidentally knocked over by by an all star team player and suffers injuries. However, these injuries are magnified by his brother-in-law, Willie Gingrich, (Walter Matthau) who is a fly by night lawyer always looking to make a buck off accidents and going to court for large amounts of money. Willie convinces Harry to fake his injuries in order to make one million dollars and so poor Willie has to stay all braced up and in a wheel chair. The insurance companies decided to have his apartment bugged and a man with a camera is watching him from a building across the street to catch him in his lies. This situation continues for a long time and even Harry's wife Sandy Hinkle, (Judi West) decides to visit him and when she finds out he is a fake, she wants him to continue his deception in order to get all the insurance money. There are lots of laughs and Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau hold this entire picture together. Enjoy.
Review of The Fortune Cookie
