Movies
February, 1976
Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, first published in 1962, has been a perennial best seller and a popular Broadway play, and will probably achieve hit status on the screen--its success more or less assured by a whole generation of Sixties flower children, aging but still agog over the heroism of a free-spirited loser battling the system. Cuckoo's Nest on film is corrosive and chilling but also a bit dated, even predictable--with Jack Nicholson at hand as R. P. McMurphy, the asylum inm...
