If you want to learn about American insurance scams then this movie is a primer with excellent actors of yesteryear who excelled in 'doing' comedies ! I am referring to Jack Lemon as the patient, young Walter Matthau as his friendly neighborhood lawyer without much scruples and other actors who act as detectives ( hired by insurance company lawyers, ) planting bugs ('outdated' technology by today's standards) and monitoring the 'patient' with hidden camera from across the street !!
The story is that Jack Lemon has an accident while photographing a soccer game and is bandaged and placed in a hospital room and continues to be a patient at the advice of his lawyer ( even after he has apparently recovered ) so the lawyer can sue someone for a very large sum of money. Thankfully, Jack (who plays an honest man) towards the end gets frustrated with all the chicanery. He deliberately gives the insurance company detectives the opportunity to film him dancing around and hanging from a rod like a chimpanzee (inside the hospital room) in plain sight of their camera !! The movie is hilarious !!
[Unfortunately, if we look at the other side, some insurance company 'people' are not above doing some chicanery as well, when they create doubt about honest people who are really sick and need help, by using various excuses and technology tools so they can 'keep' the money to 'help' their own friends and family instead!! ]
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