One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Comedy Drama / 13m 4f / Int. w. inset.Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This he learns was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse a fierce artinet. Quickly he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion stages a revolt so that they can s