Word: shyster
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...Wiplash Willy, the shyster lawyer specializing in negligence cases, Matthau outdoes himself--and everyone else in the movie. Midway between Mosca and Louie Nizer, Wiplash Willy is a wonderful offense to the American legal process...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Only Director Billy Wilder would have the chutzpah to choose a money-grubbing heel for his hero, and only Walter Matthau could make the heel lovable. As Shyster "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, Matthau gets nothing but laughs as he prods Jack Lemmon into a $1,000,000 insurance swindle...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Only Director Billy Wilder would have the chutzpah to choose an obnoxious, money-grubbing heel for his hero, and only Walter Matthau could make the heel lovable. As Shyster "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, Matthau gets nothing but laughs as he prods Jack Lemmon into attempting a $1,000,000 insurance swindle...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. As a TV cameraman who is mildly clipped while covering a football game, Jack Lemmon follows the zany signals called by his grasping brother-in-law Walter Matthau, a two-bit shyster with dreams of becoming a big-time chiseler. Nicknamed "Whiplash Willie," the illegal eagle stops at almost nothing to clip an insurance company of $1,000,000 in this comely comedy directed by Billy Wilder...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment; Kiss Me, Stupid) tackles that great pastime, cheating the insurance company. His anti-hero is a leering, sneering shyster lawyer, played by Walter Matthau, who pulls the strings for the supposedly injured party, Jack Lemmon, and ends up stealing the show...