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Actor: Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau won Best Supporting Actor for The Fortune Cookie, the first of ten films with Jack Lemmon, and the partnership defined both of their later careers through The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men.

He had a heart attack during the Fortune Cookie shoot and Billy Wilder waited months for him. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three gives him a transit officer of complete weariness, and it is the best straight performance he gave.

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in formal dance host uniforms on a cruise ship deck, smiling at each other. TITLE: Lemmon andBrent Spiner

Out to Sea (1997) Review

Out to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…

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JFK (1991) film posterDonald Sutherland

JFK (1991)

1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.

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