One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Synopsis

Chief Bromden, a gigantic Euro-Indigenous American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf, mute, and docile. Bromden's tale focuses mainly on the antics of tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a petty criminal who, 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.

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Cast

Jack Nicholson

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Brad Dourif

Billy Bibbit

Louise Fletcher

Nurse Mildred Ratched

Danny DeVito

Martini

William Redfield

Dale Harding

Scatman Crothers

Orderly Turkle

Christopher Lloyd

Max Taber

Will Sampson

Chief Bromden

Dean R. Brooks

Dr. John Spivey

Michael Berryman

Ellis

Sydney Lassick

Charlie Cheswick

William Duell

Jim Sefelt

Vincent Schiavelli

Bruce Fredrickson

Peter Brocco

Col. Matterson

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Alonzo Brown

Miller

Mwako Cumbuka

Warren

Josip Elic

Bancini

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Ken Kenny

Beans Garfield

Nathan George

Washington

Ted Markland

Hap Arlich

Crew

Art

• Paul Sylbert Production Design
• Edwin O'Donovan Art Direction
• Joe Acord Construction Coordinator
• Tom Bartholomew Painter
• Wayne Fitzgerald Title Designer
• Terry E. Lewis Props

Camera

• Haskell Wexler Director of Photography
• George Hill Grip
• Dick Colean Camera Operator
• Robert C. Thomas Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

• Aggie Guerard Rodgers Costume Design
• Fred B. Phillips Makeup Artist

Crew

• Alan Gibbs Stunts
• Irving Saraf Post Production Supervisor
• Tom F. Thomas Transportation Captain

Directing

• Miloš Forman Director
• Irby Smith Assistant Director
• Natalie Drache Script Supervisor

Editing

• Sheldon Kahn Editor
• Lynzee Klingman Editor
• Richard Chew Supervising Film Editor
• Arthur Coburn Assistant Editor
• Bonnie Koehler Assistant Editor
• Jay Miracle Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Kyle T. MacDowell Electrician
• Gary H. Holt Gaffer

Production

• Michael Douglas Producer
• Saul Zaentz Producer
• Jane Feinberg Casting
• Mike Fenton Casting
• Martin Fink Associate Producer
• Joel Douglas Unit Production Manager
• Joel Chernoff Executive In Charge Of Production

Sound

• Jack Nitzsche Original Music Composer
• Pat Jackson Sound Editor
• Philip Rogers Sound
• Ted Whitfield Music Editor
• Larry Jost Sound Recordist

Writing

• Ken Kesey Novel
• Bo Goldman Screenplay
• Lawrence Hauben Screenplay
• Dale Wasserman Theatre Play

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