Review of The Fortune Cookie (1966) by Jeff B — 03 Oct 2008

Jack Lemmon plays a cameraman who gets injured at a football game and Walter Matthau is his brother-in-law lawyer who tries to make as much money on the lawsuit by making the accident look worse than it really is.

Okay Billy Wilder film, but it really drags on and it's not nearly as funny as it could have been. The whole story with the football player and the wife weren't that great. Matthau and Lemmon were great together as usual (Matthau won the Oscar for this) but the problem is that they're not in the film together that much, Matthau sort of disappears halfway through and never shows up again.

This could have been so much more.