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.
Michael Berryman | Ellis | |
Peter Brocco | Col. Matterson | |
Dean R. Brooks | Dr. Spivey | |
Alonzo Brown | Miller | |
Scatman Crothers | Turkle | |
Mwako Cumbuka | Warren | |
Danny DeVito | Martini | |
William Duell | Sefelt | |
Josip Elic | Bancini | |
Lan Fendors | Nurse Itsu | |
Louise Fletcher | Nurse Ratched | |
Nathan George | Washington | |
Ken Kenny | Beans Garfield | |
Mel Lambert | Harbor Master | |
Sydney Lassick | Cheswick | |
Kay Lee | Night Supervisor | |
Christopher Lloyd | Taber | |
Dwight Marfield | Ellsworth | |
Ted Markland | Hap Arlich | |
Louisa Moritz | Rose | |
Jack Nicholson | R.P. McMurphy | |
William Redfield | Harding | |
Philip Roth | Woolsey | |
Will Sampson | Chief Bromden | |
Mimi Sarkisian | Nurse Pilbow |
Director | Milos Forman | |
Writer | Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman | |
Producer | Michael Douglas, Martin Fink, Saul Zaentz | |
Musician | Jack Nitzsche | |
Photography | Haskell Wexler |