The Fortune Cookie(1966)
Is he a spy? A security risk? Is he unfaithful? Or is he a nice, normal shnook - out to make a million bucks by sheer accident!
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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Harry Hinkle
Willie Gingrich
Boom Boom Jackson
Sandy Hinkle
Purkey
Mother Hinkle
O'Brien
Thompson
Charlotte Gingrich
Sister Veronica
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