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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Marcus' comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera On the air, Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her loving listeners tune out, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-and-cigar-flavored tyrant with whiplash language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time out for blather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for the Raid | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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