The Fortune Cookie (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 17, 2021
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau | |
Performer: | Judi West, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle, Les Tremayne, Marge Redmond, Noam Pitlik & Ann Shoemaker | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | André Previn | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph LaShelle |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1966 -
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste.
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New York Times
...another bittersweet comedy commentary on contemporary US mores.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A very funny film, this morality tale is a deft mixture of cynicism, wit and idealism as only writer-director Wilder could do it.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
Good, but probably Wilder's most overrated film.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The screen's definitive portrayal of an ambulance-chasing lawyer is by Walter Matthau in Billy Wilder's THE FORTUNE COOKIE. It may also be the largest role to win a supporting-actor Oscar...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Wilder remains as much ahead of his time as he was of it, skewering human foibles with a withering eye.
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From the Front Row
Rating: C+ --
Saddled with a thin story.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Starring the legendary duo of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, Wilder's characteristically cynical comedy again explores the corrupting influence of money. When TV-cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is slightly injured while covering a football game, Willie Gingrich (Matthau), his ambulance-chasing attorney of a brother-in-law sees the opportunity for a major score. Persuading Lemmon to exaggerate the extent of the damage, Matthau sues the football team, the network and the stadium for a fortune. Meanwhile Boom Boom Jackson (Ron Rich) the good-natured player who ran over Lemmon, guiltily suspends his career to care for his "victim," and Matthau calls in Lemmon's ex-wife (Judy West) whose compassion seems to be stimulated by the sound of money. But the deception begins to wear on Lemmon, who becomes ever more disgusted with himself for exploiting the innocent player, and with the blatant venality of his ex. Matthau however, has no intention of seeing his percentage of a potentially huge settlement go up in smoke. Although Lemmon give a finely-modulated performance as a reluctant scam-artist, Matthau's lawyer, a Volpone-like monster of avarice, has the best lines in a hilarious film that suggest a slight mellowing in the director's perspective on human nature.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 9,195
- UPC: 738329254858
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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