THE FORTUNE COOKIE

DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder
WRITERS: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
STARS: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
SUPPORTING PLAYERS: Lurene Tuttle, Cliff Osmond
1966, 125m
Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor (Walter Matthau)
Academy Award nomination: Screenplay, Cinematography (Joseph La Shelle)

"A jack-hammer of a film savagely applied to the concrete areas of the human spirit where cupidity and stupidity have been so long entrenched."
-- Richard Schickel

"Beautifully shot and composed [in Panavision], with visual similarities to The Apartment, it's worth screening in a high-quality print to appreciate."
-- Cameron Crowe, Conversations with Billy WIlder

SHOWTIMES: 3:00, 7:30
CO-FEATURE: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

Links:

• 'The Fortune Cookie,' Funny Fantasy of Chiselers, Begins Its Run
  By VINCENT CANBY (New York Times, October 20, 1966)