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.

Top Cast

Jack NicholsonRandle Patrick McMurphy

Brad DourifBilly Bibbit

Louise FletcherNurse Mildred Ratched

Danny DeVitoMartini

William RedfieldDale Harding

Scatman CrothersOrderly Turkle

Christopher LloydMax Taber

Will SampsonChief Bromden