One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest Lobotomy Scene
Will sampson as chief bromden.
One flew over the cuckoo s nest lobotomy scene. Randle mcmurphy s shock therapy. Directed by milos forman. Midway through the movie r p. In the decades since one flew over the cuckoo s nest debuted in 1975 it s become widely accepted as one of the greatest movies of all time also one of the most well regarded book to film.
One flew over the cuckoo s nest film jack nicholson as randle patrick r p mcmurphy. Louise fletcher as nurse mildred ratched. It s the biggest bummer of the whole movie. I wonder how accurate this scene was and also how things are different now 40 years later.
Brad dourif as billy bibbit. When chief bromden sees mcmurphy s lobotomy scars at the end of this movie he realizes that the hospital has made mcmurphy into an obedient zombie for life. Sydney lassick as charlie cheswick. A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
William redfield as dale harding. Macmurphy jack nicholson describes how he plans to escape. A scene from one flew over the cuckoo s nest 1975 the academy award winning film based on the novel of the same name 1962 by ken kesey. The next day the statesman journal in salem oregon reported the incident with the headline on the front page one flew out of the cuckoo s nest.
During filming a crew member running cables left a second story window open at the oregon state mental hospital and an actual patient climbed through the bars and fell to the ground injuring himself.