One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Original title)
Date: 1975 (Copyright)Country: USADirector: Milos Forman
Production company billing: ©N.V. Zwaluw Fantasy Films presents a Milos Forman film Produced through the facilities of Fantasy Films, Berkeley, California
Synopsis: R.P. McMurphy, a maverick prisoner, is transferred to a State Mental Hospital. He proceeds to energise the patients to such a degree that "society" (i.e. the staff), have only one solution. They perform a lobotomy that leaves McMurphy catatonic.
Genre: Medical drama
Subjects: Mental hospitals, Lobotomy
Date: 1975 (Copyright)Country: USADirector: Milos Forman
Production company billing: ©N.V. Zwaluw Fantasy Films presents a Milos Forman film Produced through the facilities of Fantasy Films, Berkeley, California
Synopsis: R.P. McMurphy, a maverick prisoner, is transferred to a State Mental Hospital. He proceeds to energise the patients to such a degree that "society" (i.e. the staff), have only one solution. They perform a lobotomy that leaves McMurphy catatonic.
Genre: Medical drama
Subjects: Mental hospitals, Lobotomy
Credits
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Production Company: Fantasy Films Productions, Producer: Saul Zaentz, Producer: Michael Douglas, Associate Producer: Martin Fink, Unit Production Manager: Joel Douglas, Production Office Co-ordinator: Rhonda Kramer, Location Auditor: Frank Noonan, Jim Young, Location Co-ordinator: Denise Schreiter, Post-production Supervisor: Irving Saraf, Production Assistant: Leonard Lipton, Assistant Director (1st): Irby Smith, Assistant Director (2nd): William St. John, Script Supervisor: Natalie Drache, Casting: Mike Fenton, Casting: Jane Feinberg, Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben, Screenplay: Bo Goldman, Based on the novel by: Ken Kesey, Play Version: Dale Wasserman, Director of Photography: Haskell Wexler, Additional Photography: Bill Butler, Additional Photography: William Fraker, Camera Operator: Hugh Gagnier, Camera Operator: Robert Stevens, Camera Operator: Dick Colean, Camera Operator: Robert Thomas, Gaffer: Gary Holt, Gaffer: Bill Tenny, Gaffer: Dennis Marks, [Electrics] Best Boy: Walter Nichols, Doug Willis, Key Grip: George Hill, Stills Photography: Peter Sorel, Supervising Editor: Richard Chew, Editor: Lynzee Klingman, Editor: Sheldon Kahn, Assistant Editor: Bonnie Koehler, Assistant Editor: Jay Miracle, Assistant Editor: Arthur Coburn, Assistant Editor: Constance Field, Production Designer: Paul Sylbert, Art Director: Edwin O'Donovan, Props: Terry Lewis, Construction Co-ordinator: Joe Acord, Production Painter: Tom Bartholomew, Costumer: Agnes Rodgers, Make-up: Fred Phillips, Hairdresser: Gerry Leetch, Title: Wayne Fitzgerald, Music: Jack Nitzsche, [Additional Music Arranger/Conductor]: Ed Bogas, [Saxophone Solo on "Call of the West"]: Stanley Turrentine, Music Editor: Ted Whitfield, Sound Recording: Lawrence Jost, Post-production Sound Director: Mark Berger, Sound Editor: Mary Mcglone, Sound Editor: Veronica Selver, Sound Editor: Robert Rutledge, Sound Editor: Pat Jackson, Assistant Sound Editor: Kirk Schuler, [Technical Adviser]: Dean R. Brooks, Transportation Captain: Tom Thomas
Cast
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Jack Nicholson (R.P. McMurphy), Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched), William Redfield (Harding), Will Sampson (Chief Bromden), Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit), Sydney Lassick (Cheswick), Christopher Lloyd (Taber), Danny DeVito (Martini), Delos V. Smith Jr. (Scanlon), Marya Small (Candy), Louisa Moritz (Rose), Dean R. Brooks (Dr Spivey), Scatman Crothers (Turkle), William Duell (Sefelt), Michael Berryman (Ellis), Peter Brocco (Colonel Matterson), Alonzo Brown (Miller), Mwako Cumbuka (Warren), Josip Elic (Bancini), Lan Fendors (Nurse Itsu), Nathan George (Washington), Ken Kenny (Beans Garfield), Mel Lambert (harbour master), Kay Lee (night supervisor), Dwight Marfield (Ellsworth), Ted Markland (Hap Arlich), Phil Roth (Woolsey), Mimi Sarkisian (Nurse Pilbow), Vincent Schiavelli (Frederickson), Tin Welch (Ruckley), Saul Zaentz ([captain on shore]), Anjelica Huston ([woman waving from shore])