Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. Offering the season's lushest crop of crass, Walter Matthau leers, sneers and swaggers as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who cons his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) into faking an insurance claim in Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores involves a money-grubbing angler (Walter Matthau) who uses his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) as bait to hook a large insurance company and cheat it out of a tax-free...
...deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian songstress, now retired, who also had a four-octave range. * The rest of the top ten, in order: Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Doris Day, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder's latest slap at American mores involves a money-grubbing angler (Walter Matthau) who uses his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) as bait to hook a large insurance company and cheat it out of a tax-free...
...Lemmon, as Harry Hinkle, is not the shlump his name suggests. He's a new brand of comic hero, tempered with a decent degree of ordinary human corruption (one of the ads for this movie divides the world into two types of people: "those who will do anything for money, and those who will do almost anything for money." Hinkle is of the latter stripe.) The understatement which pervades The Fortune Cookie is largely a consequence of Lemmon's beautifully understated performance...