pass for actor Ron Rich at close range" according to the Post. Ernie Green and a stunt performer both stood in for Rich, with the latter only for the sideline collision scene. A third consecutive day of shooting had the Kent State University freshman football team replacing the Browns, who were unavailable due to beginning preparations for their next opponent. Saint Mark's Hospital in the film is the newly completed St. Vincent Charity Hospital, a curved building considered ultramodern at that time. An exterior scene was filmed on East 24th Street outside an older section of the hospital. Terminal Tower served as the exterior of the law firm. In one scene, one can see Erieview Tower and the steel skeleton of the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building under construction. Reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film, "a fine, dark, gag-filled hallucination, peopled by dropouts from the Great Society" and "an explosively funny live-action cartoon about petty chiselers who regard the economic system as a giant pinball machine, ready to pay off to anyone who tilts it properly." Variety found the film "generally amusing (often wildly so), but overlong." The Hollywood Reporter asserted that The Fortune Cookie was "Billy Wilder's best picture since The Apartment, his funniest since Some Like it Hot." Box office The film, grossed $6,000,000 at the North American box office, making it the 23rd highest-grossing film of 1966. The film earned $6.8 million worldwide. Accolades See also List of American films of 1966 References Notes External links 1966 films 1960s black comedy films 1966 comedy films American black-and-white films American black comedy films American satirical films Cleveland Browns 1960s English-language films Films scored by André Previn Films directed by Billy Wilder Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award-winning performance Films set in Cleveland Films shot in Cleveland Films with screenplays by Billy Wilder Films with screenplays by I. A. L. Diamond United Artists films 1960s American films