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19/10/1966 Comedy, Drama, Crime 2h 5m
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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!

Overview

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.

  1. Billy Wilder

    Director, Writer

  2. I. A. L. Diamond

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Jack Lemmon

    Harry Hinkle

  2. Walter Matthau

    Willie Gingrich

  3. Ron Rich

    Boom Boom Jackson

  4. Judi West

    Sandy Hinkle

  5. Cliff Osmond

    Purkey

  6. Lurene Tuttle

    Mother Hinkle

  7. Harry Holcombe

    O'Brien

  8. Les Tremayne

    Thompson

  9. Marge Redmond

    Charlotte Gingrich

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-07-02
Morality and cynicism not quite the bedfellows Wilder intended?

Wilder's response to his previous film Kiss Me Stupid's criticism was intended to be a bitter attack on American morality, yet many critics of the time felt Wilder chickened out by sweetening the finale. If he actualy did this is obviously down to each individual viewer to decide, but in my case I just feel that it comes together nicely to finish off a very funny and sharp Wilder film.

Camerman Harry Henkle is working the sidelines filming a Browns/Vikings game when he is flattened by running back Boom Boom Jackson and taken...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$3,705,000.00

Revenue
$6,800,000.00

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