One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Kesey, Ken

Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.

A high-spirited petty criminal fakes mental illness in order to reduce his sentence at the prison work farm.

A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse.

A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse.

This Special Edition includes a 1989 interview from public radio's Fresh Air in which Terry Gros speaks with Ken Kesey about the influences and inspirations for his most important novels, and his status as a 1960's counter-culture icon.

The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence and death.