One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.
8.4(11,600) 1975-11-19 135 minDrama
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
ProducerMichael Douglas
DirectorMiloš Forman
ScreenplayLawrence Hauben
Original Music ComposerJack Nitzsche
ScreenplayBo Goldman
ProducerSaul Zaentz
Cast & characters
Jack Nicholson
as Randle Patrick McMurphy
Brad Dourif
as Billy Bibbit
Louise Fletcher
as Nurse Mildred Ratched
Danny DeVito
as Martini
William Redfield
as Dale Harding
Scatman Crothers
as Orderly Turkle
Christopher Lloyd
as Max Taber
Will Sampson
as Chief Bromden
Dean R. Brooks
as Dr. John Spivey
Michael Berryman
as Ellis
Sydney Lassick
as Charlie Cheswick
William Duell
as Jim Sefelt
Vincent Schiavelli
as Bruce Fredrickson
Peter Brocco
as Col. Matterson
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Alonzo Brown
as Miller
Mwako Cumbuka
as Warren
Josip Elic
as Bancini
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Ken Kenny
as Beans Garfield
Nathan George
as Washington
Ted Markland
as Hap Arlich
Louisa Moritz
as Rose
Mews Small
as Candy
Delos V. Smith Jr.
as Scanlon
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Lan Fendors
as Nurse Itsu
