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The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Name: The Fortune Cookie
Director: Billy Wilder
Genre: comedy film
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 7.2

The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 American black comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It is the first film in which Jack Lemmon collaborated with Walter Matthau. Matthau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. The film was co-produced by Wilder's Phalanx Productions in cooperation with Lemmon's independent film production company, Jalem Productions.

Directed by Billy Wilder · Shot by Joseph LaShelle · Cut by Daniel Mandell · Music by André Previn · Ratio 2.35:1 · 125 min

Behind the scenes

The Fortune Cookie — Campus Movie Fest · 5 min

Elsewhere

More by Billy Wilder

Mauvaise Graine — 1934
The Major and the Minor — 1942
Five Graves to Cairo — 1943
Double Indemnity — 1944
Death Mills — 1945
The Lost Weekend — 1945
A Foreign Affair — 1948
The Emperor Waltz — 1948
Sunset Boulevard — 1950
Ace in the Hole — 1951
Stalag 17 — 1953
Sabrina — 1954
The Seven Year Itch — 1955
Witness for the Prosecution — 1957
The Spirit of St. Louis — 1957
Love in the Afternoon — 1957
Some Like It Hot — 1959
The Apartment — 1960
One, Two, Three — 1961
Irma la Douce — 1963
Kiss Me, Stupid — 1964
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — 1970
Avanti! — 1972
The Front Page — 1974
Fedora — 1978
Buddy Buddy — 1981

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