"The Chief Speaks" Jack Nicholson & Will Sampson (cc'd.) "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest"

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In late 1963, 38-year old Randle McMurphy, previously on an Oregon work farm, is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, and further arrests for other assaults. Malingering, he pretends to be insane to get himself moved to a mental institution to avoid hard labor. The medical ward is dominated by Nurse Ratched, a cold, passive-aggressive behavior tyrant herself who intimidates her patients.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, alongside Louise Fletcher as a sadistic nurse.

The supporting cast is Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, and the film debuts of Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif.

Originally announced in 1962 with Kirk Douglas starring, the film took 13 years to develop. Filming finally began in January 1975 and lasted three months, on location in Salem, Oregon and the surrounding area, and in Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast.

The producers shot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual psychiatric hospital, which is also the setting of the novel. The hospital is still in operation, though the original buildings in the film have been demolished. The film was released on November 19, 1975. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list.

Note:
The title comes from a nursery rhyme read to Chief Bromden as a child by his grandmother, mentioned in the book:

Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn,
Wire, briar, limber lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew East
One flew West
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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Directed by
Miloš Forman

Screenplay by
Lawrence Hauben
Bo Goldman

Based on
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

Produced by
Saul Zaentz
Michael Douglas

Starring
Jack Nicholson
Louise Fletcher
William Redfield
Cinematography
Haskell Wexler
Bill Butler

Edited by
Richard Chew
Lynzee Klingman
Sheldon Kahn

Music by
Jack Nitzsche

Production company
Fantasy Films

Distributed by
United Artists

Release date
November 19, 1975
Running time 135 minutes
Country United States