One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

[Digney in Burnaby]

From the back of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: "Hunter Thompson made available to me several tapes he had made while working on his book , Hell's Angels, and parts of the book itself dealing with the Pranksters and the Angels were also helpful."

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I just found the book and am into it only a couple of chapters. It's interesting reading a book after seeing the movie a few times first.

I haven't seen the movie in 10 or 12 years.

 

[procrastinator]

As is the case most of the time, the book is better than the movie but, DAMN, I thought the movie was well done.

 

[talisker10]

i saw the play
in a theatre on bleeker st nyc
way before the movie came out
and when it ended
and the actors took their curtain calls
the actress that played the nurse was boo'ed heartily

lets hope she took it well
as a sign of her portrayal of villiany to a t

the screenplay was originally optioned as a vehicle for kirk douglas
(being a michael douglas {streets of san francisco} -his son- production)
thankfully jack nicholson was eventually cast

brilliant novel play film
kesey!...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

did you see it in 1963? or was it a production done after that? probably 1971? (I had to google the years. my head is full of useless information, just not the years the useless information occurred in).

Kirk Douglas originated the role of McMurphy in '63 on Broadway. he held the original screen rights, but when he couldn't get the deal done Michael took over. by then Kirk was too old for the part.