Review of The Fortune Cookie (1966) by Ryan C — 06 Aug 2008

Another nearly-perfect dark comedy by the great Billy Wilder.Wilder,who started off with film-noirs and supposedly reached perfection in Sunset Blvd., began making comedies during the 50s, in which he presented the world with Cinema's funniest movie ever, "Some Like It Hot".

He went on to make excellent dark comedies again, such as "Irma La Douce" and "The Appartment".The Fortune Cookie is one of them, and his first collaboration with Walter Matthau.