5 Star

Jack is the Man.

Fetch publicity has done a wonderful thing in bringing us One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for the first time on 4K UHD Blu-ray, and boy is it crispy, bringing 1975 straight into the 21st century. Considered by critics and audiences to be one of the greatest films ever made, and directed by Miloš Forman (Amadeus, Hair), based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey (Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey’s Garage Sale). This is one for your top shelf, even though it is not an easy watch.

Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, Ironweed, Chinatown) is incarcerated for many improprieties, and to add insult to injury, to get off from the work gangs doing hard labour he has pleaded insanity. That is why he is in ward 34B, Oregon State Hospital, where he will spend time being assessed, and he’ll either be committed or sent back to the work farm.

The hospital ward has eighteen residence, half of them don’t know their surroundings, but the others are misfits of society, such as young, anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Exorcist III), the child-like Martini (Danny DeVito, Matilda, Batman Returns), the articulate and repressed Dale Harding (William Redfield, Death Wish, Fantastic Voyage), belligerent and profane Max Taber (Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not A Serial Killer, Back to the Future), the quiet but violent-minded Scanlon (Delos V. Smith Jr., Bound for Glory, Silver Streak) tall, deaf-mute Native American Chief Bromden (Will Sampson, Orca, The Killer Whale, The Outlaw Josey Wales), and a very quiet
Ellis (Michael Berryman, The Hills Have Eyes, Weird Science).

But McMurphy’s and all the other inmates greatest problem is the passive-aggressive head nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, Exorcist II: The Heretic, A Perfect Man), who has all the other inmates under her thumb, and McMurphy is the new thorn in her well manicured ward.

 

There are going to be bad times and there will good times, and all of it is fascinating as this is one of the best films ever made, and now that it is in 4K, you can relish in every awkward moment over and over again. Awesome stuff.

AVAILABLE TO OWN ON 4K UHD AND 4K UHD STEELBOOK ON NOVEMBER 10

 

The 4K UHD and 4K UHD SteelBook contains the following new and previously unreleased special features:

●Conversations on Cuckoo: Group Therapy (NEW)

Producer Michael Douglas leads a star-studded conversation with Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif on the unorthodox casting process that launched the careers of the famous ensemble fifty years ago.

●Conversations on Cuckoo: Moviemaking Memories (NEW)

Memories of working with Jack Nicholson and director Miloš Forman and filming the Academy Award-winning film are shared by Producer Michael Douglas and cast members Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Brad Dourif.

●Completely Cuckoo

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tracing the path from Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel to the 1963 Broadway play starring Kirk Douglas to the 1975 film that would sweep that year’s Academy Awards ®.

 

●Deleted Scenes

Pecking Party (2:17)
Where are your Clothes? (1:50)
Meet Nurse Ratched (1:39)
First Group Therapy (2:36)
Shaving Chief (0:49)

 

Extra Content:

Commentary by Director Milos Forman and Producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz
The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Additional Scenes
Theatrical Trailer