One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy's hat when strangling Nurse Ratched.

a black mike standing out against the white ceiling.

When the doctors bring back Randle McMurphy from his treatment, they walk in, one doctor puts down his doctor bag, they lay Randle down, and as they walk out the doctor bag has disappeared and neither one is carrying it out.

During the basketball game, McMurphy runs to the edge of the court, the camera follows and, for a moment, reveals an assortment of film production equipment including lighting stands, C-stands, lighting gels and even a crew member.

Only visible in the wide screen version.

In the "Voluntary/Involuntary" scene, McMurphy goes from having a "five o'clock shadow" to being clean shaved, then back to having stubble.

As McMurphy dances with one of the patients while trying to convince more people to vote in favor of watching the World Series, the shadow of a camera is plainly visible on their backs.

In the voluntary/committed scene, the writing on the chalkboard behind nurses Ratched and Pilbow is different in three different shots of them (widescreen version).

When McMurphy is "announcing" the baseball game, his reflection in the darkened TV set does not match the audio track.

After McMurphy hijacks the bus and is driving through town, there are some 1970s automobiles, including a Plymouth Duster and Chevy Nova, and a store with lots of color TVs in the window.

The movie is set in 1963, according to the World Series broadcast.

Just before McMurphy climbs over the fence to hide in the bus, what looks to be a Ford Pinto can be seen in the hospital parking lot.

After McMurphy, Harding drinks the medicine with his right hand.

In the next shot he is finishing to drink with his left hand and holding a newspaper with the right hand.

When Cheswick is spilling the drink from the bottle to the jar, it is colorless.

But when he is dumping the drink, with the hose, in the mouth of the patients, it is red.

During their road trip on the bus, they pass a "DUCK XING" road sign.

Those did not exist in 1963.

During the meeting scene, when the men are tossing the cigarette around, it changes length in between shots.

When fishing, the condition of the water changes as the scene shifts from one person to the other.

Sometimes it is wavy with whitecaps and other times it is flat.

When it is a first person view of McMurphy looking through the nurse's room, you can see the reflection of the camera man in the glass.

After the voting for the change of the TV time, McMurphy tells Nurse Ratched at one moment that the voting was ten to nine, while it was actually ten to eight, like he said before.

McMurphy dials only six numbers when he calls his girlfriend from the Nurse's station.

Randall nearly chokes Nurse Ratched to death after she treats Billy so cruelly, yet when he is pulled away there are no marks or bruises at all on her throat.

Differences in clothing between McMurphy and his stunt double when McMurphy drops to the ground on the other side of the fence.

Towards the end of the movie, there are multiple references to it being winter, the most obvious arethe television announcer mentions the "upcoming holiday season", and the morning after the party, a sign saying the date is December 11th can be briefly seen.

However, in shots of the outside, there are leaves on the trees, birds outside, and other small details inconsistent with winter in Oregon.

The Monopoly game has plastic houses and hotels - in 1963, they would still be made of wood.

As Mac is being interviewed and they are looking at the fish, Dr.

Spivey is holding a folder on one shot and a pencil in the next.

As the chief and the boys are being escorted through the doorway on the way to their ECT, the male orderly with Chief is not the same one as the one on the other side of the doorway.

The second one is much taller, nearly equal in height to the Chief.

After the Christmas party, and Randall is waiting by the open window for Candy to finish seducing Billy, crickets can be clearly heard outside.

Crickets do not chirp in the wet, cold, Oregon winter.

After the Chief euthanizes McMurphy with a pillow, his tongue is moving.

This could be a reflex action.

The Birmingham Church Bombing of 1963 happened in September and Hall, Cagle and Chambliss were arrested September 30 but the World Series was playing October 2nd to 7th.

That puts the scene with McMurphy listening to the news and watching the nurses being escorted by Crothers out of sequence.

In the card playing scene before the music dispute, McMurphy's hair alternates between unkempt 'bed head' and groomed.

By the time movie ended, I was speechless.. The amazing way human emotions were captured.

I was truly exited when I decided to watch this movie. Top 250?

When circumstances try to smooth out your angles, do not let your soul stop flying.The chief takes with him a vegetable who ends up in a lunatic asylum, a body that no longer stands up to the rules he loathes.

This is a typical "murder on the Orient express" black tragedy, "dramatic" is the best point of the film. Of course, the outcome is also very sad, unexpected, sharp turn down, caught off guard, tragic.

This great movie is very compelling and fascinatingly done about expressing the human struggle. McMurphy was at first misunderstood and may have seemed erratic, but he chose to make a change and bring joy and laughter for the helpless.

Based on Ken Kesey's novel about R.P.

I've watched this masterpiece more than 3 times (for sure) and I think it is time give its proper review. Just to start, I'd say this is one of those films that you recommend to every person you know it's a "must watch" without any doubt.

A touching story carried by wonderful acting from all cast members. A rollercoaster of emotions packed into 2hrs 13 mins & worthy of the 5 Oscars it received.