The Filmographers Podcast
The Fortune Cookie
Show Notes
After the box-office failure of Kiss Me, Stupid, Billy Wilder decided to leave sex out of The Fortune Cookie (1966). He went back to the premise that made him an A-list director twenty years earlier: insurance fraud!
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Credits
Keir Graff & Michael Moreci, hosts
Kevin Lau, producer
Gompson, theme music
Cosmo Graff, graphic design
The Filmographers Podcast
Welcome to the Filmographers Podcast, where we study a director’s entire career, one film at a time. In each episode, we discuss why a single film suc...
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