Nerve damage

The Fortune Cookie

(1966)

Billy Wilder redoes Double Indemnity as a comedy, except that it's not really very funny and sympathies are scrambled. Matthau as Lemmon's shyster brother-in-law, pushing him to fake serious injury for an insurance score. While Willie wants the cash, Harry only wants his ex-wife back. She's played by one Judi West, for whom Mirisch apparently had big plans, which seem to have fared about as well as Whiplash Willie's scam.