The Fortune Cookie (1966)

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Purkey (Cliff Osmond) makes one last ditch attempt to catch Willie Gingrich (Walter Matthau) and Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) in a lie.

Directed by Billy Wilder.

© MGM 2013

Released in 1966 by MGM.

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