Adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel, and now digitally restored for its 50th anniversary, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest centres on Randle McMurphy (Nicholson), a convict who simulates mental illness in the hope that a transfer to psychiatric hospital might ensure his early release. But he hasn’t bargained for the rigid regimen of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, also superb), who dislikes his disruptive - though he’d say liberating - effect on the ward.
