McMurphy becomes an unlikely leader to the asylum patients, helping them to discover self-belief and confidence.

Michael Douglas was full of praise for a former co-star, whom he compared to both Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn.

The narrator is a character called Chief Bromden, a patient at a mental hospital who pretends to be deaf and dumb so as not to draw any attention to himself – even though he is 1.8 metres tall.

Michael Douglas rose to prominence on ABC ... In 1975, he produced the film adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Douglas went on to ...

Michael Douglas had recently achieved great success with the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” when he and Diandra Luker ...

McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the ...

Michael Douglas has pushed back against the ... producer on the Oscar-winning 1975 Ken Kesey adaptation One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. “I sort of impulsively said, ‘Let me run with it ...

Adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel of the same name, the original production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ran on Broadway in 1963. The celebrated film version, starring Jack Nicolson ...