One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Director: Miloš Forman
Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Based on: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Release Date: November 19, 1975
Stars: Jack Nicholson (Randle Patrick “R.P.” McMurphy), Louise Fletcher (Nurse Mildred Ratched), Will Sampson (“Chief” Bromden), William Redfield (Dale Harding), Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit), Sydney Lassick (Charlie Cheswick), Christopher Lloyd (Max Taber), Danny DeVito (Martini), Dean Brooks (Dr. John Spivey), William Duell (Jim Sefelt), Vincent Schiavelli (Bruce Frederickson), Michael Berryman (Ellis), Alonzo Brown (Attendant Miller), Mwako Cumbuka (Attendant Warren), Nathan George (Attendant Washington), Marya Small (Candy), Scatman Crothers (Night Guard Turkle), Phil Roth (Woolsey), Louisa Moritz (Rose), Peter Brocco (Col. Matterson), Delos V. Smith Jr. (Scanlon), Josip Elic (Bancini), Mimi Sarkisian (Nurse Pilbow), Ted Markland (Hap Arlich), Mary Costa (Mrs. Johnson)
Plot: In 1963 Oregon, Randle McMurphy is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl (which he claims he committed under the assumption that she was an 18-year-old), with five previous arrests for assault. He feigns mental illness so that he can be moved to a mental institution and avoid hard labor at a work farm. The medical ward is dominated by the cold, passive-aggressive Nurse Ratched, who intimidates her patients and maintains control through fear.
The other patients include young, anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to temper tantrums; delusional, child-like Martini; the articulate and repressed Dale Harding; belligerent and profane Max Taber; epileptics Jim Sefelt and Bruce Fredrickson; quiet but violent-minded Scanlon; tall, deaf-mute Native American Chief Bromden; and several others with chronic conditions.
Ratched sees McMurphy’s lively, rebellious presence as a threat to her authority, to which she responds by confiscating and rationing the patients’ cigarettes and suspending their card-playing privileges. McMurphy finds himself in a battle of wills against Ratched. One night, he makes a bet with the other inmates that he can escape by tearing a hydrotherapy fountain off its base and hurling it through a locked window, but is predictably unable to lift it. Shortly after, he hijacks a charter bus, picks up his girlfriend Candy, and escapes with several patients to steal a recreational fishing boat, exposing them to the outside world and encouraging them to discover their abilities and find self-confidence.
After an orderly tells him that his sentence term does not apply in the mental institution, and can become indefinite, McMurphy questions why no one had told him this before. He also learns that he, Chief, and Taber are the only non-chronic patients who have been involuntarily committed; the others have committed themselves voluntarily but are too afraid to leave. After Cheswick bursts into a fit and demands his cigarettes from Ratched, McMurphy starts a fight with the orderlies, and Chief intervenes to help him.
McMurphy, Chief, and Cheswick are then sent to the disturbed ward, and Chief reveals to McMurphy that he can speak and hear normally, having faked deaf-muteness to avoid engaging with anyone. The two make plans to escape to Canada together. McMurphy is subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, and returns to the ward pretending to be brain-damaged before revealing that the treatment has made him even more determined to defeat Ratched. McMurphy and Chief plan to throw a secret Christmas party for their friends after Ratched and the orderlies leave for the night, before making their escape.
McMurphy sneaks Candy and her friend Rose into the ward, each bringing bottles of alcohol for the party, and bribes the night orderly Turkle to allow the party. McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them. Billy refuses but asks for a “date” with Candy; McMurphy arranges for him to spend a night with her. McMurphy and the others get drunk, and McMurphy falls asleep instead of escaping with Chief.
Ratched arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray; most patients have passed out. She discovers Billy and Candy in bed together and aims to embarrass Billy in front of everyone. Billy manages to overcome his stutter and stands up to Ratched. When she threatens to tell his mother, Billy cracks under the pressure and reverts to stuttering, before Ratched orders he be locked in a separate room as punishment. McMurphy punches an orderly when trying to escape out of a window with Chief, causing the other orderlies to intervene. Locked up alone, Billy kills himself by slitting his throat with a broken glass, causing a huge commotion. Ratched tries to control the situation by calling for the day’s routine to continue as usual, but her nonchalant reaction enrages McMurphy, who begins strangling her. The orderlies violently subdue McMurphy, saving Ratched’s life.
Sometime later, Ratched is wearing a neck brace and speaking weakly although still sternly, and Harding leads the now unsuspended card-playing. McMurphy is nowhere to be found, leading to a rumor that he has escaped. Later that night, Chief sees McMurphy being returned to his bed. He is initially elated that McMurphy had kept his promise not to escape without him, until discovering that McMurphy has been lobotomized. After tearfully embracing McMurphy, Chief smothers him to death with a pillow. He then rips the hydrotherapy fountain off its base and throws it through the window as McMurphy had earlier attempted. Chief escapes, with Taber and the other inmates awakening to cheer him on as he runs into the surrounding countryside.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | Transcript
[Birds Chirping]
[Footsteps]
[Keys Jingle]
[Warren] Good morning, Miss Ratched.
[Ratched] Good morning.
[Washington]
Good morning, Miss Ratched.
[Ratched] Mr. Washington.
[Pilbow] Good morning, Miss Ratched.
[Ratched] Good morning.
[Washington] Good morning, Bancini.
[Bancini, Mumbles] Good morning.
[Keys Jingle]
[Washington] How are you feeling?
Rested.
Medication time.
[Pilbow] Medication time.
[Soft instrumental melody plays]
[Matterson Muttering]
Okay, move it up!
[Pilbow] Mr. Fredrickson, here.
[Pilbow] Juice.
[Washington] Chief.
[Correctional Officer]
Okay, my friend, let’s go.
[Car Door Slams]
[Footsteps]
[Correctional Officer 2] Here are his papers, and I’m gonna need a signature.
[Laughter]
[Clanking]
[Cackles Hysterically]
Hoohoohoo…
Whew!
[Footsteps]
[Door Slams]
Hi.
[Pilbow] Mr. McMurphy’s here.
[Ratched] All right.
[Ratched] All right, I’m ready.
[Pilbow] Okay. One pair of socks.
Tshirt.
[McMurphy] Hi.
Goddamn, boy, you’re as big as a mountain!
Looks like you might have played some football.
What’s your name?
[Billy] He can’t hear you. He’s deaf.
Deaf and dumb Indian.
Is that so?
[Martini] Come on, Bibbit.
[McMurphy]
Can’t even make a sound, huh?
How.
Wahwahwah…
Club lead. Jack of clubs.
Haha…oh, oh.
[McMurphy] What’s your name, son?
Billy Bibbit.
[McMurphy] Glad to know you, Bill.
McMurphy’s mine.
Aahaha…
That’s old Charlie Cheswick’s cards.
[Harding] That’s his ace of spades.
[Harding] Your turn, Bill.
[Harding] Big ten.
[Harding] Put one of them on it, will you?
[Cheswick] Wait a minute.
[Cheswick] Oh, I can win that one.
[Cheswick] I win.
[Harding] Oh, you overtrumped?
[Cheswick] Sure.
[McMurphy] Pinochle, Bill?
[McMurphy] What’s the bid?
[Billy] Five… Five-fifty.
You like to look at other people’s cards, do you?
Yes.
Ever seen this one?
Come on, Martini.
Martini!
[Harding] Martini, will you?
Will you play a club?
[Cheswick] Whose turn is it now?
[Harding] Let’s see, he trumped…
[Harding] Where you going?
Aren’t you going to play?
What’s the matter?
Aren’t you gonna play, Martini?
Martini? I want to play.
Billy?
Billy, I want to win some…
Get a grip on yourself, will you?
[Knock on door]
Yes?
Mr. McMurphy’s here, Doc.
Good, have him come in.
[Spivey] Thank you.
McMurphy, I’m Dr. Spivey.
Dr. Spivey, what a pleasure it is to meet you.
Sure. Pull up a chair, sit down and let’s talk.
Sure.
[Spivey clears his throat]
[Spivey] R.P. McMurphy.
That’s a hell of a fish there, Doc.
[Spivey] Isn’t that a dandy?
[McMurphy] Yeah.
[McMurphy] It’s about 40 pounds, ain’t it?
[Spivey] No, 32.
[McMurphy] Thirtytwo.
But I’ll tell you, it took every bit of strength I had…
[Spivey] …to hold it while the guy took the picture.
Every damn bit.
Probably that chain didn’t help it any, either.
You didn’t weigh the chain, did you?
No, I didn’t weigh the chain.
[Spivey] But I’m awfully proud of that picture.
That’s the first Chinooker I ever caught.
It’s a nice one.
Randall Patrick McMurphy.
Thirty-eight years old.
What can you tell me about… why you’ve been sent over here?
Well…
I don’t know.
What’s it say there?
[McMurphy] Mind if I smoke?
[Spivey] No, go right ahead.
[Spivey] Well, it… says several things here.
[Spivey] It said you’ve been belligerent.
Talked when unauthorized.
You’ve been resentful in attitude towards work, in general. That you’re lazy.
Chewing gum in class.
[McMurphy chuckles]
The real reason that you’ve been sent here… is because they wanted you to be evaluated.
[Spivey] To determine whether or not you’re mentally ill.
This is the real reason.
Why do you think they might think that?
[McMurphy sighs]
Well, as near as I can figure out, it’s ’cause I… fight and fuck too much.
In the penitentiary?
No, no, no, you mean why…
[Spivey] Why did you get sent over here… from the work farm?
Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh…
Well, I really don’t know, Doc.
It says here that you went around…
[Spivey] Let me just take a look…
[McMurphy] It ain’t up to me, you know.
[Spivey] One… two, three… four…
You’ve got at least… five arrests for assault.
What can you tell me about that?
Five fights, huh?
Rocky Marciano’s got 40, and he’s a millionaire.
That’s true.
That is true.
Of course, it’s true that you went in for… statutory rape.
That’s true, is it not, this time?
[McMurphy] Absolutely true. But, Doc… she was 15 years old going on 35, Doc… and she told me she was 18, and she was…
[McMurphy] …very willing, you know what I mean?
I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut.
But between you and me… she might have been 15.
When you get that little red beaver… right there in front of you, I don’t think it’s crazy at all.
And I don’t think you do, either.
I hear what you’re saying.
[McMurphy]
No man alive could resist that.
That’s why I got into jail to begin with.
Now they’re telling me I’m crazy over here…
…’cause I don’t sit there like a goddamn vegetable.
It don’t make a bit of sense to me.
If that’s what being crazy is… then I’m senseless, out of it, gone down the road, whacko.
[McMurphy] But, no more, no less.
That’s it.
To be honest with you, McMurphy… what it says here…
[Spivey] …is that… they think…
They think… you’ve been faking it in order to get out of your work detail.
[Spivey] What do you think about that?
Do I look like that kind of guy to you?
Well…
Let’s just be frank for a minute.
All right, Randall, if you would.
Tell me…
Do you think there’s anything wrong with your mind, really?
Not a thing, Doc.
I’m a goddamn marvel of modern science.
Well…
You’re going to be here for a period, for us to evaluate you.
[Spivey] We’re going to study you.
[McMurphy] Mmhmm.
[Spivey] We’ll make our determinations as to what we’re going to do… and give you the necessary treatment as indicated.
Doc, let me just tell you this.
I’m here to cooperate with you a hundred percent.
[McMurphy] A hundred percent.
I’ll be just right down the line with you.
You watch.
‘Cause I think we ought to get to the bottom of…
…R.P. McMurphy.
[Heavy Breathing]
[Ratched] The scythe.
[Heavy breathing]
[Bancini] I’m awfully tired.
[Washington] Sit down.
[Bancini] I’m tired.
[Washington] Is that better?
[Coughing, background]
[Washington] Mr. Ellsworth… you’ll wear yourself out.
[Ratched] All right, gentlemen, let’s begin.
At the close of Friday’s meeting… we were discussing Mr. Harding’s problem concerning his wife.
[Ratched] Mr. Harding stated that his wife made him uneasy… because she drew stares from men on the street.
[Ratched] Is that correct, Mr. Harding?
Yes.
That’s correct.
[Ratched] He also thinks he may have given her reason… to seek sexual attention elsewhere, but he wasn’t able to say how.
[Ratched] Mr. Harding has been heard to say to his wife:
“I hate you.
“I don’t ever want to see you again.
“You’ve betrayed me.”
So, does anyone care to touch on this further?
[Coughing, background]
[Shuffling of papers]
Mr. Scanlon, would you begin today?
[Ratched] Are you sure?
Billy, how about you?
No, no, ma’am.
[Ratched] I’d like to write in my book that you began the meeting.
[Coughing, Background]
[Ratched] Just once.
[Rippling Of Cards]
[Rippling Of Cards]
Mr. Martini?
Are you with us?
Yes.
[Ratched] Would you like to begin?
[Patient Clears His Throat, Background]
[Coughing, Background]
Mr. Cheswick?
[Cheswick] Me?
[Ratched] Yes.
You mean there’s not a man here who has an opinion on this matter?
[Patient clears his throat, background]
[Ratched] All right.
[Ratched] Mr. Harding… you’ve stated on more than one occasion… that you’ve suspected your wife of seeing other men.
Oh, yes!
Yes, very much, I suspect her.
I suspect her.
Maybe you can tell us why… you suspect her.
Well, I can only… speculate as to the reasons why.
Have you ever speculated, Mr. Harding… that perhaps you are…
[Ratched] …impatient with your wife… because she doesn’t meet your mental requirements?
[Harding] Perhaps. But you see, the only thing I can really… speculate on, Nurse Ratched… is the very existence of my life… with or without my wife… in terms of the human relationships, the juxtaposition of… one person to another, the form, the content.
Harding, why don’t you knock off the bullshit and get to the point?
This is the point.
This is the point, Taber. It’s not bullshit.
I’m not just talking about my wife, I’m talking about my life!
[Harding] I can’t seem to get that through to you.
I’m not just talking about one person, I’m talking about everybody!
I’m talking about form!
I’m talking about content!
I’m talking about interrelationships!
I’m talking about God, the Devil, Hell, Heaven!
Do you understand? Finally?
[Taber] Yeah, Harding, you’re so fucking dumb I can’t believe it.
[Sefelt Laughs]
It makes me feel very peculiar, very peculiar… when you throw in something like that.
Why?
What does that mean, “peculiar,” Harding?
[Frederickson] Peculiar?
[Taber] Peculiar?
[Cheswick]
I’m gonna tell you guys something.
You just don’t want to learn anything.
You just don’t want to listen to anybody.
He’s got intelligence!
You’ve never heard the word “peculiar”?
Say, what are you trying to say?
You trying to say I’m queer? Is that it?
Little Mary Ann? Little Marjorie Jane?
[Harding] Is that what you’re trying to tell me?
Is that your idea of communicating something to me?
Well, is it?
[Cheswick] They’re all crowding in on you, Mr. Harding.
They’re all ganging up on you.
Is that news?
No…
They sometimes want to gang up on me, too, but l…
Cheswick, do me a favor.
Take it easy.
[Harding] And stay off my side.
[Cheswick] But I only want to…
I only want to help you.
[Harding] I understand.
[Cheswick] But don’t you want me to…?
[Harding] Please!
[Cheswick] But I only want to…
Please!
But I only want to help you.
Please!
[Harding] You see… the other day you made some allusions, both of you.
[Frederickson] Illusions?
[Harding] Yes, allusions.
[Harding] Not illusions. Allusions… to sexual problems I might be having with my wife.
Let’s say it’s true!
Let’s say I know it’s true, but you don’t!
If that’s your idea of trying to tell me something…
You know, Harding, I think you’re some kind of morbid asshole!
[Sefelt] “Peculiar!”
[Harding] “Asshole” again.
[Frederickson]
It makes you feel “peculiar.”
[Taber] You’ve talked about your wife ever since I can remember!
You know, she’s on your mind, and blah, blah…
I’m not talking about my wife!
When will you get that through your thick, fucking head?
When are you gonna wise up and turn her loose?
[Harding] Please!
[Cheswick] I don’t want to hear it!
[Bancini] I’m tired.
[Cheswick] I don’t want to hear it!
[Bancini] I’m tired.
[Cheswick] I don’t want to hear it.
[Cheswick] I don’t want to hear it.
[Bancini] It’s a lot of baloney and I’m tired.
[Cheswick] I don’t want to hear it!
[Miller] We know you’re tired.
We’re all tired.
[Bancini] I’m tired and it’s a lot of baloney.
[Miller] You’re not tired, Bancini.
[Bancini] Take your hands off me!
[Shouting Continues, Background]
[Flute And Banjo Play Cheery Duet]
[Ratched On Speaker]
Recreation time, gentlemen.
The bus is waiting.
All nonrestricted patients please report to the bus.
[Rushing Footsteps]
[Dribbling]
[Engine Revs]
Ever play this game, Chief?
Come on, I’ll show you.
[McMurphy] Old Indian game.
[McMurphy] It’s called “put the ball in the hole.”
Now, that ought to be just…
Hold it right there.
All right.
Now, that’s your spot. Don’t move.
Never move. That’s your spot, you understand?
Right there. You don’t move. Now…
[McMurphy] …take the ball.
[McMurphy] Here, take the ball.
[McMurphy] That’s it. Hold on to it.
Not too hard, Chief.
You’ll crush all the air out of it.
We’re gonna put her in the basket.
You understand?
[McMurphy] All right.
Now, raise up your arms.
[McMurphy] Raise the ball up in the air!
Raise it up.
[Washington] McMurphy?
What the hell are you talking to him for?
He can’t hear a fucking thing.
I ain’t talking to him.
I’m talking to myself. It helps me think.
Yeah, well, it don’t help him none.
Well, it don’t hurt him, either, does it?
Don’t hurt you, does it, Chief?
See? Don’t hurt him.
All right, now, Chief.
Let’s raise our hands up in the air.
Just raise them up.
Up, you understand?
Raise the hands up, here.
Up. Raise your hands up.
Up! That’s it! That’s it!
Up, all the way up.
[McMurphy] All the way up.
That’s a baby, all right.
[McMurphy] Okay, now…
Now, jump up in the air, and put it in the basket, Chief.
Jump up and dunk it in!
Jump up in the air and stuff that son of a bitch in there, Chief.
[McMurphy] Take a rest, Chief.
Just stay right there.
Take a rest. I’ll be right back.
[McMurphy]
Bancini, come here for a minute.
You’re looking all right.
Get right over here for a second.
[McMurphy] Now, just stand right there.
Just get down a little bit.
All right. Stand up.
Stand up. Go ahead.
That’s a baby! All right, you got it.
All right. Now, over there.
[McMurphy] Hit me, Chief!
I got the moves! I got them, Chief!
Hold it right there. Give me the ball.
Give me the ball. That’s it.
Thank you, Chief.
Now… hold it right there.
You take the ball, you jump up, and put it in the basket.
See what I mean? Put it…
Bancini, hold still.
All right, Chief, here. Take the ball.
[McMurphy] Now, jump up and put it in the basket, Chief!
[McMurphy] Jump up and put it in the basket!
Not you, Bancini.
Raise up! Bancini, where you going?
[Bancini] I’m tired!
[McMurphy]
Fast break! Defense! Get back!
[McMurphy] Come on, Bancini, where the fuck you going at?
General, get this man around here.
That’s it, back!
Over to Chief.
Fast break! Fast break! Hit me, Chief!
[McMurphy] Hit me, baby!
Put it in the basket, Chief!
Put it in the basket!
[Soft Instrumental Melody Plays]
[Voice Talking On TV]
[Matterson Muttering]
[Shuffling Of Cards]
All right.
Make the bets.
[Martini] What’s this?
Make the bets.
It’s a dime, Martini.
[Martini] I bet a nickel.
A dime’s the limit, Martini.
[Martini] I bet a dime.
This is not a dime, Martini.
This is a dime.
If you break it in half… you don’t get two nickels, you get shit.
Try and smoke it. You understand?
[McMurphy] You don’t understand!
All right, here they come.
Queen to the Chesser, Big Bull to Tabulations… ten to Billy to match his whang, and the dealer gets a three.
[Martini] Hit me. Hit me.
[McMurphy] I can’t hit you because it ain’t your turn yet. You understand?
You see these other people?
These are the real ones.
These are real people here.
What’ll you do, Ches? Hit or sit?
[Cheswick] Um…
Hit me.
[McMurphy] That’s 23 up, Cheswick.
Taber, you’re busted. Give me this.
Twentythree.
Hit me.
Shut up!
[McMurphy] Taber.
[McMurphy] Give me a dime!
[Martini] I’m next.
[McMurphy] You’re not next!
[Martini] Hit me.
[McMurphy] Ace.
[Martini] Hit me.
That’s 4 or 14.
[McMurphy] Don’t want any more. Billy?
[Martini] Hit me. Hit me.
[McMurphy] Five.
You didn’t make a bet, Martini.
I can’t hit you. Jesus Christ.
[Martini] I bet a dime.
[McMurphy] All right, here.
[McMurphy] That’s 20 showing.
[Martini] No.
[McMurphy] Take your money.
[Martini] No.
[Martini] It’s not.
It’s 10, 11, 12, 13.
This is a fucking queen here, you understand?
You don’t count the this and the this.
Hit me.
You got 20 showing!
[Martini] Hit me again.
I want another card.
Scanlon, who’s pitching the opener?
[Banging]
Medication time.
[Martini] This isn’t a queen!
[Martini] Mac, hit me.
Who’s pitching the opener?
Hit me.
[McMurphy] Jesus Christ Almighty!
Do you nuts want to play cards or do you want to fucking jerk off?
[Taber] Play the game!
I can’t even hear myself think already, here.
Aah…!
Stay back!
[McMurphy] Excuse me. I just wanted…
Stay back!
Patients aren’t allowed in the nurses’ station.
[McMurphy] Well, I just wanted to turn…
When you’re outside, we’ll discuss whatever problem you have, okay?
The patients are not allowed in the nurses’ station. All right?
[McMurphy] Yes, ma’am.
Let me get in here, will you, Hardon?
Thank you.
Excuse me, miss.
[McMurphy] Do you think it might be possible to turn the music down… so maybe a couple of the boys could talk?
That music is for everyone, Mr. McMurphy.
I know, but do you think we might ease it down a little… so maybe the boys didn’t have to shout?
What you probably don’t realize… is that we have a lot of old men in this ward… who couldn’t hear the music if we turned it lower.
That music is all they have.
Your hand is staining my window.
[McMurphy] I’m sorry, ma’am.
[Ratched] All right.
[Pilbow] Mr. McMurphy, your medication.
What’s in the horse pill?
It’s just medicine. It’s good for you.
Yeah, but I don’t like the idea of taking something if I don’t know what it is.
Don’t get upset, Mr. McMurphy.
I’m not getting upset, Miss Pilbow.
It’s just that I don’t want anyone to try and slip me saltpeter.
You know what I mean?
[Tapping]
[Ratched] It’s all right, Nurse Pilbow.
If Mr. McMurphy doesn’t want to take his medication orally…
…I’m sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.
[Ratched] But I don’t think you’d like it, Mr. McMurphy.
You’d like it, wouldn’t you, Hardon?
Give it to me.
[Ratched] Good.
Very good!
Yummy!
[Pilbow] Mr. Harding?
Merci.
Tell me, loverboy… why didn’t you tell her to go fuck herself?
[McMurphy makes blowing sounds, group laughs] [Harding] Jesus Christ.
Funny, huh? That’s funny, huh?
You know that wasn’t very smart.
She could have seen that.
Oh, yeah. Woo…woo!
God Almighty, she’s got you guys coming and going.
What do you think she is?
Some kind of a champ or something?
[Harding] No, I thought you were the champ.
You want to bet?
Bet on what?
One week.
I bet in one week I can put a bug so far up her ass… she won’t know whether to shit or wind her wrist watch.
[McMurphy] What do you say to that?
Want to bet? Do you want to bet?
One week. That’s all I need.
Who wants to bet?
You want to bet? Bet a buck. One buck.
[Taber] I’ll bet.
[McMurphy] Tabes in, one buck. Solid.
[Ratched] Last time we were discussing…
…Mr. Harding and the problem with his wife… and I think we were making a lot of progress.
So who would like to begin today?
Mr. McMurphy?
I’ve been thinking about what you said about…
[Clears His Throat]
…you know, getting things off your chest.
Well, there’s a couple of things that I’d like to get off my chest.
Well, that’s very good, Mr. McMurphy.
Go ahead.
[McMurphy] Today, as you may or may not know, it doesn’t matter… is the opening of the World Series.
What I’d like to suggest is that we change the work detail tonight… so that we can watch the ball game.
[Ratched] Well, Mr. McMurphy, what you’re asking… is that we change a very carefully worked out schedule.
A little change never hurt, huh?
A little variety?
[Ratched] Well, it’s not necessarily true, Mr. McMurphy.
Some men on the ward take a long, long time to get used to the schedule.
Change it now, and they might find it very disturbing.
Fuck the schedule! They can go back to the schedule after the Series.
I’m talking about the World Series, Nurse Ratched.
Well, anyway, this is no way to proceed about this.
[Ratched] How would it be if we had a vote… and let the majority rule?
Great. Let’s vote on it.
So, all those in favor raise your hands.
Okay, guys, come on.
[McMurphy] Put your hands up.
What’s the matter with you?
Don’t you want to watch the World Series?
Get your hands up.
It can do you some good… to get some exercise, putting your arms up in the air.
That’s it. Come on, let’s…
What is this crap?
I watch the Series.
I haven’t missed the Series in years.
Even in the cooler. When I’m in the cooler they run it there or they’ll have a riot.
[McMurphy] What’s the matter with you guys? Come on, be good Americans!
[Ratched] Well, Mr. McMurphy, I only count three votes, and… that’s not enough to change the ward policy.
[Ratched] I’m sorry.
[Harding] My turn. Okay, hot dice.
[Harding] I want a ten to go…
…’cause I need cash.
I want to get to Mediterranean Avenue.
Big ten! Perfect.
[Harding] Two fives.
[Harding counting]
[Harding] What are you doing?
[Martini] Hotel.
You do not have a hotel there.
Hotel.
For the third time… you do not have a hotel on Boardwalk.
[Martini] Hotel.
[Harding] It costs $1,000 and four green houses…
Hotel.
…to put a hotel on Boardwalk.
Hotel.
[Taber] Play the game and knock off the bullshit.
Play the game, Harding.
What are you talking about?
I am playing the game.
Play the game!
I ain’t doing anything to you!
What bullshit?
Your bullshit!
What about your bullshit?
Play the game!
[Harding] You keep your hands off me!
[Taber] Play the game!
[Harding]
I’ve had enough bullshit out of you!
Play the game.
What the fuck are you picking on me for?
[Taber] Play the game, Harding.
[Harding] I’m trying to ignore you, see?
[Taber] Just play the game.
Keep your hands off me, you son of a bitch!
[Harding] Keep your hands off me!
You hear me?
Come on, come on.
I can be pushed just so far, see!
[Taber] Play the game.
[Harding] You touch me once more.
Just touch me once more!
Just once more, huh? Just once more!
[Harding] Just touch me once more!
[Taber] Play the game, Harding!
[Harding] Just touch me once more!
[Harding] Holy Jesus!
[Shouts And Laughter]
Is that what your schedule does for you, Hardon?
Damn lunatic!
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
No? Well, then stay all wet, Harding, huh?
‘Cause I’m going downtown to watch the World Series, anyway.
[McMurphy]
Anybody want to come with me?
I do, Mac. I want to go with you!
[McMurphy] Ches, all right. Anybody else?
Where?
Any bar downtown.
[Billy] Mac, you can’t… can’t get out of here.
Anybody want to bet?
Chicken shits!
[Sefelt] Maybe he’ll just show Nurse Ratched his big thing… and she’ll open the door for him.
[All Chuckle]
Yeah, maybe I will… and then maybe I’ll use your thick skull and knock a hole in the wall.
Sefelt, see?
[Frederickson laughs]
Why? My head would squash like an eggplant.
[All Laugh]
Fuck Sefelt’s head, I don’t need Sefelt’s head!
I’ll take this fucking thing, and put it through the window… and me and Cheswick will go out through the hall… downtown, sit down in a bar, wet our whistles… and watch the ball game.
And that’s the bet.
Now, does anybody want any of it?
You’re going to lift that thing?
Yeah! That’s right.
I’ll bet a buck.
Taber, $1.
I bet a dime.
Mac, you can’t… can’t lift that thing.
Anybody else want any of it? Hardon?
I’ll bet $25!
$25, Hardon!
Mac, nobody could ever lift that thing.
Get out of my way, son.
You’re using my oxygen.
You know what I mean?
[McMurphy] All right.
All right.
[Groans]
[Harding] Giving up?
[Breathes Heavily]
No! Just warming up.
Warming up.
This will be the one.
[McMurphy] All right, baby.
[Grunts And Groans]
[Straining Sounds]
[Breathes Heavily]
[McMurphy] But I tried, didn’t I?
Goddamn it!
At least I did that.
[Slamming Sounds]
[Radio Announcer] And on the mound, the lefthander, Al Downing.
The two pitchers still warming up, right down below us.
The second game of the 1963 World Series… is being brought to you from Yankee Stadium.
[Ratched] Did you tell the girl how you felt about her?
I went over to her house… one Sunday afternoon and…
[Billy] …and I brought her some flowers…
[Billy] …and I said, I said…
…Celia, will you…
[Billy] …marry me?
[Frederickson And Sefelt Laugh]
[All Laugh]
Billy?
Why did you want to marry her?
Well, I was in love with her.
Your mother told me that you never told her about it.
[Ratched] Billy?
Why didn’t you tell her about it?
[Ratched] Billy?
Wasn’t that the first time you tried to commit suicide?
Oh, my God!
Yes, Mr. Cheswick?
Miss Ratched…
…I’d like to ask you a question, please.
Go ahead.
Okay…
You know, if…
…Billy doesn’t feel like talking…
…I mean, why are you pressing him?
Why can’t we go on to some new business?
The business of this meeting, Mr. Cheswick… is therapy.
[Cheswick] Oh…
You know, I don’t understand this, Miss Ratched… because I don’t…
[Cheswick] Mr. McMurphy…
He said something yesterday about a World Series.
A baseball game?
[Cheswick] You know, and I’ve never been to a baseball game and…
…I think I’d like to see one.
That would be good therapy, too, wouldn’t it, Miss Ratched?
I thought we’d decided that issue.
I don’t think so, because, I mean… we discussed that yesterday… and we have a new game today, I think, don’t we, Mac?
That’s right, Ches, and we want a new vote on it, don’t we?
Would one more vote satisfy you, Mr. McMurphy?
Yeah.
It’d satisfy me.
There’s a vote before the group.
Everyone in favor of changing the schedule, please raise your hand.
[McMurphy] Okay, I want to see the hands.
Come on!
Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
All right. That’s it!
I only count nine votes, Mr. McMurphy.
She only counts nine. Only nine!
It’s a landslide.
There are 18 patients on this ward, Mr. McMurphy… and you have to have a majority to change ward policy.
[Ratched] So you gentlemen can put your hands down.
[McMurphy] Are you trying to tell me that you’re gonna count these?
These poor sons of bitches, they don’t know what we’re talking about.
Well, I have to disagree with you, Mr. McMurphy.
These men are members of the ward, just as you are.
[Sighs]
All right. All I need is one vote, right?
[McMurphy] Right?
All right.
[McMurphy] Okay.
[McMurphy]
Want to watch the World Series?
This could be a big moment for you.
You want to watch a baseball game?
You want to watch baseball?
Just raise that hand up.
Just raise the hand up.
[McMurphy] What do you say?
[Patient] I gave it all to her.
Sorry.
[McMurphy] Bancini, old horse.
What do you say?
You want to watch the ball game on TV?
Want to watch the ball game?
Baseball? World Series?
What do you say, pal? You’re tired?
Just raise your hand up, Bancini.
Watch the ball game, huh?
I’m tired. Awfully tired.
Okay. All right.
[McMurphy] What about you, pal?
All we need’s one vote. Just one vote.
Just your one vote. That’s all we need.
Just raise your hand up and your buddies can watch the baseball game.
General, you remember, don’t you?
October, the banner, the stars…
[Sings] “Oh, say can you…”
The World Series.
Raise your hand up, Gen.
[Both Sing] “By the dawn’s early light…”
[McMurphy] Just raise your hand up.
What about you pal, huh?
Want to watch the ball game?
Want to watch the ball game, huh?
Just one vote. Just raise your…
Gentlemen, the meeting is adjourned.
[McMurphy] For Christ’s sake, isn’t there one of you fucking maniacs… that knows what I’m talking about?
Mr. McMurphy?
The meeting is adjourned.
Just wait a minute, will you?
Just one minute?
You can bring the subject up again tomorrow.
All right, Chief… you’re our last chance. What do you say?
Just raise your hand up.
[McMurphy] That’s all we need from you today, Chief.
Just raise your hand up one time.
Show her that you can do it.
Show her that you can still do it.
Just raise your hand up.
All the guys have got them up.
Just raise your hand up, Chief.
Will you? Huh?
Come on, there’s got to be one guy here that’s not a total fucking nut!
Mac?
[McMurphy] Chief! The Chief!
Aah…!
[McMurphy] Nurse Ratched?
Nurse Ratched, look!
Look. The Chief put his hand up.
The Chief put his hand up. Look, he voted.
[McMurphy] Would you please turn the television set on?
The Chief has got his hand up, right there.
The Chief voted. Now… will you please turn the television set on?
[Ratched] Mr. McMurphy… the meeting was adjourned, and the vote was closed.
But the vote was ten to eight.
The Chief, he’s got his hand up! Look!
No, Mr. McMurphy.
When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was nine to nine.
Come on, you’re not going to say that now!
You’re not going to say that now!
You’re going to pull that henhouse shit, now, when the vote…
The Chief just voted! It was ten to nine!
I want that television set turned on!
Right now!
[Warren] Cheswick…
[Cheswick] I want to watch television.
[Warren] No, you have a work assignment.
[Soft Dramatic Instrumental Music, Background] Koufax.
[McMurphy] Koufax kicks. He delivers.
It’s up the middle, it’s a base hit.
Richardson’s rounding first!
He’s going for second!
The ball’s in to deep right center!
Davidson, over in the corner, cuts the ball off!
Here comes the throw.
Richardson’s around the dirt!
He slides, he’s in there.
He’s safe! It’s a double!
He’s in there, Martini!
Look at Richardson, he’s on second base.
Koufax is in big fucking trouble!
Big trouble, baby!
All right, here’s Tresh.
He’s the next batter!
Tresh looks in. Koufax…
Koufax gets the sign from Roseboro!
He kicks once, he pumps…
It’s a strike! Koufax’s curve ball is snapping off like a fucking firecracker.
Here he comes with the next pitch.
Tresh swings!
It’s a long fly ball to deep left center!
[All Cheer]
It’s going! It’s gone!
[All Cheer]
Somebody give me a fucking wiener before I die.
[Laughter And Cheers]
[McMurphy] It’s the great Mickey Mantle, now! Here comes the pitch!
Mantle swings!
It’s a fucking home run!
Gentlemen, stop this.
Stop this immediately.
[Cheering continues]
Do you like it here?
That fucking nurse, man!
What do you mean, sir?
She…
She ain’t honest.
Miss Ratched’s one of the finest nurses we’ve got in this institution.
[McMurphy] Ha…!
Well, I don’t want to break up the meeting or nothing… but she’s something of a cunt, ain’t she, Doc?
How do you mean that?
She likes a rigged game, you know what I mean?
Well, you know, I’ve been observing you here now… for the last four weeks… and I don’t see any evidence of mental illness, at all.
I think that you’ve been trying to put us on, all this time.
You know, what do you want me to do?
You know.
[Tapping]
You know what I mean? Is that it?
Is that crazy enough for you?
Want me to take a shit on the floor?
Christ!
Have you ever heard the old saying, “A rolling stone gathers no moss”?
Yeah.
Does that mean something to you?
Uh…
[McMurphy] It’s the same as “Don’t wash your dirty underwear in public.”
I’m not sure I understand what you mean.
I’m smarter than him, ain’t I?
[Mcmurphy Laughs]
[McMurphy] Well that, sort of, has always meant… it’s hard for something to grow on something that’s moving.
How did you feel about what happened yesterday?
I wanted to kill… I mean…
[Cackles]
[McMurphy clears his throat]
Do you gentlemen have any more questions?
I don’t have any more, but perhaps you do.
Do you have a question, McMurphy?
Where do you suppose she lives?
[Door Rattles]
Chief, come on with me.
[McMurphy]
We’ll show these guys who’s nuts.
All right, wait.
Stand right here.
[McMurphy] All right. Grab the fence.
Grab the fence here.
Right here, Chief. Strong!
Strong, like this, here.
[McMurphy] That’s it. All right.
Okay. Up.
That’s it.
[McMurphy] All right, you got it?
[McMurphy] All right, push!
[Grunts]
[Warren] Come on, Bob!
Where are you going?
[McMurphy] Don’t breathe on me, Club.
Keep moving. Keep moving.
[Warren] Come on, you guys.
Get the lead out, huh?
[Door Rattles]
[Engine Revs]
[Warren]
Hey, what the hell’s going on here?
[Frederickson] Wait a minute!
[Harding] Hold it!
[McMurphy] See how easy it is?
[Tires Screech]
[Instrumental Country And Western Tune, Background]
[Dog Barks In Distance]
[Candy Giggles]
[McMurphy] Boys.
This here is Candy.
[McMurphy] Candy, this is the boys.
[Door Squeaks Shut]
[Engine Revs]
Hi.
You all crazy?
[Tires Squeal]
[McMurphy] Let’s go. Down here.
[Cheswick] Isn’t this wonderful?
[McMurphy] Down here.
[McMurphy] No problem.
[McMurphy] Right here.
[McMurphy] Come on, we don’t want to be late for our first day out.
[McMurphy] Hello!
[McMurphy] Come on, will you?
What are you standing around for?
[McMurphy] Get on board.
Give them these.
[Captain] Hey, wait a minute!
What the heck is going on here?
[Captain] What are you doing on this boat?
We’re going fishing.
[Captain] No, you’re not going fishing.
Not on this boat.
You’re not going fishing on this boat.
Oh, yeah, on this boat. Ask Captain Block.
Captain Block?
Captain Block. Yes, that’s right.
Who are you?
We’re from the…
…State Mental Institution…
This is Dr. Cheswick…
…Dr. Taber, Dr. Fredrickson…
…Dr. Scanlon.
The famous Dr. Scanlon.
Mr. Harding, Dr. Bibbit…
…Dr. Martini, and…
…Dr. Sefelt.
How about you? Who are you?
I’m Dr. McMurphy. R.P. McMurphy.
Wait, wait… Wait one second.
[McMurphy] You don’t understand.
We chartered the boat.
We’re going to go fishing.
And that’s all there is to it.
You better quit on this.
They’ll throw you in the can again, you know?
No, they won’t. We’re nuts!
[Cackles]
They’ll just take us back to the feeb farm, see?
Von Sefelt, get the stern line.
Tabes, you’re at the bow.
[Sefelt] This one?
That one! The one at your feet.
[Engine Rumbles]
[McMurphy] Get back on! Jesus!
[Mcmurphy Chuckles]
[McMurphy] Tabes!
[Hawaiian slide guitar plays, background]
Come here, quick!
Aye, aye, sir. I mean, yes, Mac!
Take it easy, Charlie.
Have you ever driven one of these things?
Driven one of…
Yeah.
No, Mac.
Well, it’s a lot of fun.
Come on over here.
Put your hands on the wheel.
[McMurphy] Put your hands on.
[Cheswick] I’ve never done this.
[McMurphy] Put your hands on the wheel so you don’t fall down. All right.
Just hold it steady right there, like that.
Steady?
Steady, yeah.
Now just go straight.
Straight as an arrow, Charlie.
Straight, Mac?
Just straight. That’s right.
But, Mac…
Mac, this thing ain’t too steady.
Mac!
[Cheswick] Where are we going, Mac?
[McMurphy] Straight.
[McMurphy] Just go on!
[McMurphy] This is the bait.
[McMurphy] Little fishes.
[Martini] Dead fishes.
[McMurphy] [Laughing] That’s right.
[McMurphy] Now what are we going to do with these little fishes?
[Martini] Catch big fishes.
[McMurphy] That’s right.
That’s right, Mr. Martini.
[McMurphy] Hooks.
[McMurphy] Hooks.
[McMurphy] Now, hold on to your hooks…
…’cause here are the fishes.
[McMurphy] Tabes.
[McMurphy] Get a fish here.
There, for you, Martini.
[McMurphy] All right, now we, each one of us has got a fish.
What are you laughing at, Martini?
You’re not an idiot, huh?
[McMurphy] You’re not a goddamn loony now, boy, you’re a fisherman.
[McMurphy chuckles]
Now, take your bottom hook.
You got it?
You take it… and you…
[McMurphy] …push it all the way through.
Like that.
[McMurphy] Wait a second.
Get it through the eyes, here.
[McMurphy] Right through here.
[Martini] In the eye?
[McMurphy] Don’t worry about it!
He’s dead, Martini.
Jesus Christ, just put it through his eyeball, here.
That’s it.
Crunch it right through.
All right. Now you got it, see?
Now, you just pull that baby through.
You see what I mean?
And you wrap it around.
You pull this so it’s a little loop.
That’s very good.
That’s very good, Mr. Fredrickson!
Very good eye work.
Good eye work.
That little devil’s gonna not even feel the sting, is he, boy?
[McMurphy] That son of a gun is going to bite on you, isn’t he?
You got beautiful hair.
Thank you.
And you got… beautiful eyes.
Thank you.
Billy, what’s the matter?
Fishing don’t grab you?
Um…um…yeah…yeah…
They do.
[McMurphy]
Now, come on with me, over here.
I’m gonna give each and every one of you a rod.
[McMurphy chuckles]
All right.
[McMurphy] Here’s your poles.
[Singing] “I’m Popeye, the sailor man…”
[McMurphy] Now, just keep watching tip here. If you get a strike, let me know.
Understand?
Come on, Candy. Just keep fishing, guys!
[McMurphy] Don’t call me unless you get something really big… you can’t handle yourselves.
[McMurphy] Keep on fishing!
[McMurphy] That’s right.
[McMurphy chuckles]
[Hawaiian Slide Guitar Plays, Background]
Mac…
[Cheswick] Mac…
[Cheswick] Hey!
Where is everybody?
[Engine hums]
[Cheswick] Hey!
Cheswick! Goddamn it, I told you to…
[McMurphy] …steer that boat straight!
[Taber] Mac!
[Taber] Fish! Help, help!
[McMurphy] Goddamn it, he’s got a fish.
Hold it! Wait a minute, Tabes. I got it!
Cheswick, get the fuck back up there!
Get up there in front!
Tabes, I got it, Tabes!
[McMurphy] Get up, Tabes, I’ll get it for you!
Son of a bitch, he’s going over here!
Get up there!
I got it!
[McMurphy] I got it! Give it to me!
[Cheswick] Hey, Harding, I’m the skipper of this boat.
[Harding] Shut up!
He said to go straight out as an arrow.
You’re not going straight, you’re kind of…
I’m going straight enough.
Now, Chessy, stop it!
It’s my duty!
Chessy, stop it!
[McMurphy] No, you son of a bitch!
All right, Martini.
All right, take him over!
Take him over!
That’s it! Now play them, boys!
You sons of bitches!
[McMurphy] Keep it straight!
Come back this way!
[Boat Engine Hums, Helicopter Propellers Pelt Overhead]
[Seagulls Crying]
[McMurphy] Home safe and sound.
Didn’t lose a nut!
Beats bowling, you know what I mean?
[Sefelt] We caught it, look!
[McMurphy]
They’re gonna be trolling this place… for six months looking for dead bodies!
Woo!
I think he’s dangerous.
He’s not crazy… but he’s dangerous.
You don’t think he’s crazy?
[Gilman] No, he’s not crazy.
[Phillips] Dr. Songee?
I don’t think he’s overly psychotic.
But I still think he’s quite sick.
[Phillips] Do you think he’s dangerous?
[Songee] Absolutely so.
[Phillips] Well, John, what do you want to do with him?
Well…
I think we’ve had our turn.
I’d like to send him back to the work farm, frankly.
[Ratched Sighs]
[Phillips] Is there anybody that you have… on your staff, that could… relate to him? Maybe understand him.
Help him out with some of these problems?
The funny thing is that the person that he’s the closest to… is the one he dislikes the most.
That’s you, Mildred.
[Ratched] Well, gentlemen, in my opinion, if we send him back to Pendleton or… we send him up to Disturbed… it’s just one more way of passing on our problem to somebody else.
You know, we don’t like to do that.
So I’d like to keep him on the ward.
I think we can help him.
[Spivey Sighs]
[McMurphy] All right.
Chief, Chief, come on.
Come with me, huh?
Chief, this is the spot.
Right there is the spot. Remember?
Raise the hands, in the basket.
[McMurphy] That’s it. Raise the hands up.
[McMurphy] All right! Let’s have a little ball from you nuts in here! Here we go!
All right! Let’s play some ball, nuts.
Let’s make some moves!
[Washington] Hey, Mac, Mac.
Time, time, time.
You’ve got six men on the court.
Harding, out of the ball game.
Hey, why me?
[McMurphy] Because I’m the coach.
I’ll put you in later.
[Harding] I don’t trust you.
[Billy] Mac.
I’ll go.
[McMurphy] Okay, good boy, Billy.
I’ll put you in in a minute, all right?
[McMurphy] Let’s play ball.
Harding, break over there.
[McMurphy] All right, Martini, get it back. Back!
I’m in the open! What are you doing?
You threw the goddamn ball into the fence!
Christ Almighty, you threw the ball into the fence!
There’s nobody there! We’re playing ball!
All right, come on, get in the game.
Defense, nobody’s doing nothing here!
[McMurphy] For Christ’s sake!
[Harding] Hey, Mac, I’m open!
[McMurphy] Harding, give it back.
Back to me!
I’m open. Harding, give me the ball.
[McMurphy]
Stop dribbling the goddamn ball!
[Harding] I got it!
[McMurphy] Harding, over here.
[McMurphy] Oh, for Christ’s sake.
I’m standing…
[Harding] You were covered!
[McMurphy] I was open!
[McMurphy] Just give me the ball.
They’re making all over the…
I was open. Give me the ball.
[Martini] You were covered, Mac.
I wasn’t covered. Somebody get back!
Give it to me! Give it to me!
[McMurphy] Chief! Thatta baby, put it in!
[Cheering]
[McMurphy] Get down there!
[McMurphy whistles]
[McMurphy] Get down there, Chief!
All right, all right.
[McMurphy] Get around, Chief!
[Players Protesting]
[McMurphy] No, no, no.
Get down there, Chief!
The ball’s in play! Ball’s in play!
[Players] That’s bullshit!
[McMurphy] Ball’s in play.
Oh, fuck that shit! You’ve got to be crazy.
[Washington] Man, that doesn’t go!
Get that ball in and play!
[McMurphy] Come on, Chief! Put it in!
[Cheering]
What a ball club!
[Washington] McMurphy, get off the side.
[Washington] Come on, move it, man!
[McMurphy] Hey, damn it!
Quick! Come on, go ahead.
[Washington] Go ahead.
[Washington] Go ahead.
I’ll be seeing you on the outside.
You know what I mean?
[Washington]
By the time you get out of here… you’ll be too old to even get it up.
Sixtyeight days, buddy.
Sixtyeight days.
What the fuck you talking about, 68 days!
That’s in jail, sucker.
You still don’t know where you’re at?
Yeah, where am I at, Washington?
With us, baby, you’re with us.
And you’re gonna stay with us until we let you go.
Do you want to say something to the group, Mr. McMurphy?
Well…
[Clears His Throat]
Yeah…
[McMurphy] I’d like to know why none of the guys never told me that you…
…Miss Ratched… and the doctors could keep me here till you’re good and ready to turn me loose.
[McMurphy] That’s what I’d like to know.
Fine, Randall, that’s a good start.
Would anyone care to answer Mr. McMurphy?
[Harding] Answer what?
You heard me, Harding.
You let me go on hassling Nurse Ratched here… knowing how much I had to lose and you never told me nothing!
Now, Mac, wait a minute.
Wait a minute, I didn’t know anything about how much…
[McMurphy] Shit!
[Harding] Wait a minute. Listen.
[Harding] Now, look…
I’m voluntary here, see?
I’m not committed.
[Harding] I don’t have to stay here.
I mean, I can go home anytime I want.
You can go home anytime you want?
[Harding] That’s it.
[McMurphy] You’re bullshitting me!
[McMurphy] He’s bullshitting me, right?
No, Randall, he’s telling you the truth.
[Ratched] As a matter of fact, there are very few men here who are committed.
There’s Mr. Bromden.
[Ratched] Mr. Taber.
Some of the chronics, and you.
Cheswick?
Hmm?
You’re voluntary?
Mmhmm.
[McMurphy] Scanlon?
Billy, for Christ’s sake, you must be committed, right?
No, no, no.
You’re just a young kid!
What are you doing here?
You ought to be out in a convertible… birddogging chicks and banging beaver.
What are you doing here, for Christ’s sake?
[McMurphy] What’s so funny about that?
Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothing but complain about how you can’t… stand it in this place, and then you haven’t got the guts to walk out?
What do you think you are, for Christ’s sake? Crazy or something?
[Martini Laughs]
Well, you’re not. You’re not!
You’re no crazier than the average asshole walking around on the streets.
And that’s it.
[McMurphy] Jesus Christ, I can’t believe it!
Those are very challenging observations you made, Randall.
I’m sure some of the men would like to comment.
Mr. Scanlon?
I want to know why the dorm is locked in the daytime and on weekends.
[McMurphy sighs]
I would like to know about our cigarettes.
May I have my cigarettes, please, Miss Ratched?
You sit down, Mr. Cheswick, and wait your turn.
Go ahead, sit down!
To answer your question about the dorm, Mr. Scanlon…
[Ratched] You know very well… that if we left the door open, you’d just go right back to bed after breakfast.
Am I right?
So what?
May I have my cigarettes, please, Miss Ratched?
Forget the cigarettes, Cheswick.
Cigarettes are not important.
Sit down, will you?
[McMurphy] For Christ’s sake!
[McMurphy] Cigarettes!
Remember, Mr. Scanlon, we’ve discussed many times… that time spent in the company of others is very therapeutic.
While time spent brooding alone only increases a feeling of separation.
You remember that, don’t you?
Do you mean to say… it’s sick to want to be off by yourself?
[Cheswick] Miss Ratched?
Mr. Cheswick, you sit down!
[Cheswick] I want to know about…
[Ratched] Sit down, Mr. Cheswick.
I want to…
Give him a cigarette, will you, Harding?
It’s my last one.
That’s a fucking lie.
Why don’t you give him a cigarette?
[Harding] Look, I’m not running a charity ward, see?
Come on!
[Cheswick]
Look, I don’t want his cigarettes.
And I don’t want his, or his, or his… or his, or his, or his…
Or even yours.
Do you understand that?
[Cheswick] I want my cigarettes, Miss Ratched!
I want my cigarettes!
I want mine, Miss Ratched!
[Cheswick] What gives you the damn right… to keep our cigarettes piled up on your desk… and to squeeze out a pack only when you feel like it, huh?
[Cheswick] Miss Ratched!
[McMurphy] Mr. Harding!
[Outburst Of Giggles, Background]
Oh, I’m sorry.
[Ratched] You surprise me.
[Harding] I lost my head. I’m sorry.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…
I’m really very sorry. I just forgot.
I didn’t mean to.
I’m really very sorry. I just forgot.
It’s all right.
[Cheswick] Miss Ratched!
Yes, Mr. Cheswick?
I asked you a question!
I heard your question, Mr. Cheswick… and I will answer your question as soon as you’ve calmed down.
Are you calm, Mr. Cheswick?
[Cheswick] I’m calm.
[Ratched] Good.
Now, as you all know, Mr. McMurphy… has been running a small gambling casino in our tub room.
[Ratched] Now, most of you lost all your cigarettes to Mr. McMurphy… not to mention a tidy sum of money to Mr. McMurphy.
[Ratched] And that’s why… your tub room privileges have been suspended… and your cigarettes have been rationed.
Mr. Martini?
How are we going to win our money back?
[McMurphy chuckles]
You’re not going to win your money back, Mr. Martini.
[Ratched] That’s all over.
If you had obeyed the rules in the first place… you wouldn’t have lost your money.
[Taber Screams And Yells Hysterically]
Sit down, gentlemen!
Sit down, gentlemen! Sit down!
[Taber Continues Yelling]
[Cheswick] Rules?
Piss on your fucking rules, Miss Ratched!
Sit down, will you, Cheswick!
I want you to know something right here and now, Miss Ratched!
I ain’t no little kid! I ain’t no little kid!
[Ratched] You sit down!
[Cheswick] Where you’re going to have cigarettes kept from me like cookies…
And I want something done!
Ain’t that right, Mac?
That’s right! Will you sit down!
No, I won’t! I won’t!
I want something done!
[McMurphy] Sit down!
[Cheswick] I want something done!
[Cheswick] I want something done!
I want something done!
[Cheswick] I want something done!
I want something done!
[McMurphy] Here!
[Cheswick] I want something done!
[McMurphy] Goddamn it, Cheswick, here!
Hey, calm down!
[McMurphy] Why don’t you leave him alone, Washington?
He’s going to be all right!
[Grunting And Groaning]
[Cheswick Crying]
Emergency…
[Ratched] …34B.
[Washington] I’ll break your fucking back!
[Grunting And Groaning]
[Washington] Forget it, Mac!
It’s all over, McMurphy!
[Washington] Warren!
Warren!
[Chaotic Screaming And Yelling]
[Running Footsteps]
[Clanking Of Door]
Would you move, please?
We need this chair.
Just move right over there, okay.
[Nurse] I see we have Mr. Bromden back.
Yeah, okay.
[Nurse] How do you do, Mr. McMurphy?
[McMurphy] I do real fine.
[Attendant] I know you didn’t do anything wrong. Just sit down.
We’re not going to hurt you.
Sit down, right here.
That’s it.
Nurse, this is Mr. Cheswick.
He’s a little upset.
Okay, fine. Thank you very much.
You’ll be okay, Mr. Cheswick.
Yes.
Would you keep an eye on these three?
[Ambient Sounds Of Hospital Ward]
[Door Slams]
[Footsteps]
NURSE [Itsu] Would you please take these, gentlemen?
[McMurphy] He can’t hear nothing.
[McMurphy] Calm down, Ches, will you?
Mr. Cheswick, would you please follow me?
[Cheswick sobs]
Mr. Cheswick?
[Cheswick wails]
[Cheswick] No!
[Attendant]
Nobody’s going to hurt you, come on.
[Cheswick] No!
[McMurphy] It’ll be all right.
No one’s going to hurt you.
No, leave me alone!
[Attendant]
Take it easy on yourself. Come on!
[Cheswick] Mac! Mac!
[Cheswick] No!
[Attendant] Come on.
Come on, now. Come on.
[Attendant] Come on.
[Cheswick] No!
I didn’t do nothing!
Mac!
[Attendant] Come on.
[Cheswick] I won’t go! I don’t want to go!
[Door Closes]
Want some gum?
Thank you.
Juicy Fruit.
You sly son of a bitch, Chief.
[Foot Slams]
Can you hear me, too?
Yeah, you bet!
Well, I’ll be goddamned, Chief!
And they all, they all think you’re deaf and dumb.
Jesus Christ!
[Mcmurphy Laughs]
You fooled them, Chief.
You fooled them. You fooled them all!
Goddamn you!
What are we doing in here, Chief?
What’s us, two guys, doing in this fucking place?
Let’s get out of here.
Out.
Canada?
Canada.
We’ll be there before these sons of bitches know what hit ’em.
Listen to Randall on this one.
[Footsteps]
Mr. McMurphy?
[Itsu] Please follow me.
You and me, Chief.
Take a cigarette break, boys. Easy.
I’ll be fine.
[McMurphy] Aah…
[Attendant] Would you sit up, please?
[McMurphy] I’d love to.
[Attendant] Thatta boy.
There might be a little fluid in them boots, you know what I mean, boys?
[McMurphy] Just a little leak.
A light shine, boys, and… send the specimen to Nurse Ratched.
[Breathes Heavily, Chuckles]
[Itsu] All right, out with your gum.
Out with your gum.
[Doctor] Okay, this won’t hurt, and it’ll be over in just a moment.
[McMurphy] What’s that?
[Itsu] Conductant.
A little dab will do you.
Right, Mr. Jackson?
Open your mouth.
What’s that?
[Itsu] This’ll keep you from biting your tongue.
Now just bite down on it.
That’s right. Just bite down.
Now, bite down on it.
[Gagging Sounds]
Are you ready?
[Machine Hisses]
[Doctor] Here we go.
[Machine Buzzes]
[Bed Rattles]
[Breathes Heavily]
[Ratched] Now, one big breath.
[All Breathe Deeply]
[Ratched] Very good.
[Ratched] Gentlemen, I’d like to begin today. It shouldn’t take too long.
[Shuffling Of Papers]
Jim?
[Ratched] It’s been brought to my attention… that you’ve been giving Mr. Fredrickson your medication.
Is that true?
[Sefelt] No, ma’am.
[Ratched] Jim?
Are you giving your medication to Mr. Fredrickson… or are you not?
[Wobbling Footsteps]
[Laughs]
How about it, you creeps, you lunatics, mental defectives.
Let’s hear it for Bullgoose Randall, back in action. Nice shirt, Cheseroo.
[All Laugh]
[McMurphy] Look at the faces on you!
Look at you!
The feeb’s brigade, you dingalings!
The mental defective league in formation.
How are you, Nurse Ratched?
I’m happy to be back.
We’re happy to have you back, Randall.
Thank you.
[McMurphy] Would you like to rest today, or would you like to join the group?
I’d love to join the group…
I’d like…
I’m proud to join the group, Mildred.
[Mcmurphy Clears His Throat]
[Billy] How’s it going, Mac?
Perfect, Billy Boy, absolutely perfect.
[McMurphy] They were giving me 10,000 watts a day, you know, and I’m… hot to trot.
The next woman who takes me on will light up like a pinball machine… and pay off in silver dollars!
[All Chuckle]
That’s an amusing thought, Randall… but when you came in we were talking to Jim.
He has a problem with his medication… and we’d like to get back to that.
Oh, I don’t…I don’t mind at all, Nurse Ratched, I’m… as gentle as a puppy dog and…
Please proceed. Thank you.
[TV Announcer] The administration was hopeful, but cautious Friday… in its reaction… to a possible opening of the Berlin Wall… during the upcoming Christmas holiday.
Good night, gentlemen.
See you in the morning.
[Door Slams]
[Door Slams]
[TV Report Continues, Background]
[Clanking]
[Rotary Phone Dialing]
Yeah, baby, it’s Mac.
It’s on tonight.
Don’t worry about it.
Don’t worry about it. Get a car.
I don’t give a shit, baby.
Steal it if you have to!
[McMurphy] I gotta go! I gotta go!
Don’t forget to bring some booze.
Right.
Bye.
[Click Of Receiver]
[Footsteps]
[Snores]
[Gasps]
Chief…
Chief, I can’t take it no more.
I gotta get out of here.
I can’t. I just can’t.
It’s easier than you think, Chief.
For you, maybe.
You’re a lot bigger than me.
[Mcmurphy Chuckles]
Why, Chief, you’re about as big as a goddamn tree trunk.
[Chief] My poppa’s real big.
He did like he pleased.
That’s why everybody worked on him.
The last time I’ve seen my father he was blind in the cedars from drinking.
And every time he put the bottle to his mouth… he don’t suck out of it.
It sucks out of him until he’d shrunk so… wrinkled and yellow, even the dogs don’t know him.
Killed him, huh?
I’m not saying they killed him.
They just worked on him, the way they’re working on you.
There they are, Chief.
[McMurphy] There they are. They’re here.
[Whispers] Over here. That’s it!
McMurphy, stop all this Holy Roller shit… and get your ass back in bed.
Do you understand?
Well…
My prayers have been answered, Turkle.
Come on and see.
[McMurphy] You’d take $20… to get down on your knees and pray, wouldn’t you, Turkle?
No, it don’t send me, don’t send me.
lt don’t?
Don’t do nothing to me, no.
Well, you know there’ll be more.
I mean, they’ll be bringing a couple of bottles with them, and…
[Turkle] You’re getting closer, brother.
You’re getting closer, but… they’re going to be sharing more than just bottles, ain’t they?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, sure.
I know what you mean.
Understand what I mean?
Yeah, I understand what you mean.
Anything you say, Turkle.
I’m on my knees, brother.
I’m on my knees.
Yeah, all right, all right.
[Metallic Clanking]
[McMurphy]
Let me just give them a hand here.
[Turkle] I appreciate that.
[Woman] Hi.
[Turkle] Ladies!
[McMurphy] Oh, thank you. I believe this is your department, Mr. Turkle.
[Rose] Hi, there! Give me a hand.
[McMurphy] How’re you doing?
[McMurphy] Love to give you a hand.
[Turkle] Keep it down. Keep it down.
[Rose] I split my pants.
[Turkle] Keep it down!
[McMurphy] Give it to me. Give it to me.
[Turkle] You got to keep it down!
[Rose] Hi.
[Candy] This looks like my high school.
[Rose] Oh, hey, I take that.
[Rose] The barber chair.
[Turkle] You may have it.
[Rose] It is mine, mine.
[Turkle] You can have it.
You can have it, honey.
[Rose] Take a load of these tubs.
[Candy] It’s a real nice place you got here.
Hey, can I take a bath?
Sure, you can take a bath. Sure.
Just don’t drown your pretty little self.
You know…
…Rose was married to a maniac once, up in Beaverton.
Oh, really, miss?
What seemed to be the problem?
Oh, nothing, he used to put frogs in my bra all the time.
[All Laugh And Giggle]
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
Rose is very interested in hospitals, and hospital facilities.
I am?
Yes. Oh, yes, you are.
I’m going to take Miss Candy…
Where you going?
I’m gonna take Candy for a stroll.
I got you, I got you.
But just don’t make too much noise.
Oh, no, not a peep, not a peep.
[Candy Giggles]
[Turkle] Now, you come over here, baby, right over here.
[Rose] Candy…
Don’t worry about Candy, honey.
Sit down and relax.
[Tapping]
[Candy, Sings] “Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream” McMURPHY ON SPEAKER:
Wake up, boys.
Wake up.
It’s medication time.
Medication time.
The nighttime spirits are here.
It’s Randall to say goodbye… and get you high, and nighttime angel, Candy.
That’s right, Mr. Martini, there is an Easter bunny.
[Candy Continues Singing]
Round the side, boys, join Mr. McMurphy… in the executive lounge, please.
Round the side.
[Soft Classical Melody Plays]
[McMurphy] It’s going to be so great.
[McMurphy] You’d like a nip, Charles?
[McMurphy] No trouble at all!
[McMurphy] It’s Billy the Club of the fabulous and fantastic 14…
[Turkle] What the hell’s going on?
[McMurphy] Mr. Turkle…
[Turkle] Ain’t this a bitch!
McMurphy, what’re you trying to do?
Get my ass really fired?
Come on, get your ass out of here.
Come on.
[McMurphy] We’re just having a party.
[Turkle] Party, my ass!
This ain’t no nightclub, this is a hospital!
Man, this is my fucking job!
I don’t give a damn, this is my fucking job!
[Turkle] Oh, shit! The supervisor!
Get your asses back in there.
Come on. Come on there!
[Turkle] Where’s that notalking son of a bitch? Is he in there?
Good. Come on.
[Door Slams]
[Footsteps]
Mr. Turkle?
Mr. Turkle?
[Conversation In Whispers]
[McMurphy] Where the hell is he?
Why doesn’t he answer?
[Taber] He’s jerking off somewhere.
[Turkle] Ain’t nobody jerking off nowhere, motherfucker!
[McMurphy] Turkle, what the fuck are you doing here? Go out and talk to her!
[Turkle] Doing the same fucking thing you’re doing in here, hiding!
Yes, ma’am?
Is everything all right, Mr. Turkle?
Oh, everything is just fine, ma’am.
[Turkle] Just fine. Just fine.
[Crashing]
[Rattling]
Who’s there?
Ain’t nobody in there.
Please open that door.
[Candy Giggles]
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry, ma’am, but…
[Turkle] …you know, a man gets awfully lonesome at night.
You understand what I mean, don’t you?
[Turkle] You understand?
I’m sure you understand.
I want that woman off this ward, immediately.
Yes, ma’am.
[Turkle] [Whispers] Yes, ma’am.
[Footsteps]
[Crashing]
[Door Slams]
[Turkle] Jesus!
[Cheswick] Mr. Turkle, is she gone?
[Turkle] Shit! Yes, she’s gone, and so am I… so get your behinds out of here and go to bed.
Go ahead, move it, move it! Move it!
[Cheswick] I knew we were in trouble!
[Turkle] Let’s go!
You and your teddy bear ass!
Move them on out of here!
Come on, come on!
[McMurphy] Candy?
[Turkle] Come on, Candy!
[Turkle] Jesus Christ!
[McMurphy] Mr. Turkle, I’m really sorry.
Tell those fucking friends of mine to get out!
[Turkle] Get out!
[McMurphy] I’m really sorry.
What are you…?
What the fuck…? Get out of here!
Please get out, this is my job!
You’re fucking it up! You understand?
Get out!
Get out of here, you slim motherfucker!
[Door Slams]
[Turkle] [Sobs] Fuck it!
Fuck it!
[Christmas Music And Laughter]
[Matterson Muttering]
Hahaha…
Good night, good night, don’t let the cooties bite.
[Laughs]
Right out of the shock department.
I got it from…
I got it from Ratched’s charts.
Right. There you go, there you go.
Easy now.
[Cheswick] Don’t take it all at once!
[Cheswick] Let’s try a little over here.
There you go.
[Music And Laughter Continues]
[Soft Classical Music Plays]
[McMurphy] Let’s go.
[McMurphy] I’ll have to be the one, Chief.
[Metallic Clanking]
[Harding] Hey, Mac, what’s going on?
[McMurphy] Well, Dale…
…Lord Randall is stepping down one.
[McMurphy] Fredrickson.
[McMurphy] Jimmy.
[Cheswick] Aren’t you gonna say goodbye to me, Mac?
Sure, I’m gonna say goodbye to you, Charles.
[Cheswick] Thank you, Mac.
Thank you.
I’ll never forget you.
[McMurphy] Settle down, Charles, all right.
Hey, Billy, what’s wrong?
[McMurphy] Billy, for Christ’s sake?
[McMurphy] What’s the matter?
I’m gonna miss you very… very, very much, Mac.
[McMurphy Sighs]
[McMurphy] Why don’t you come with us, then?
Think I don’t want to?
Well, come on then, let’s go.
[Billy] Well, it’s not that easy.
I’m not ready yet.
[McMurphy] Tell you what we’ll do…
When I get to Canada, I’ll write you a postcard… and I’ll put my address on it.
That way when you’re ready, you’ll… you’ll know where to go.
[McMurphy] What do you say?
[Billy Sighs]
[Billy] Mac?
Is she going with you?
Candy?
[McMurphy] Yeah, she’ll be there when you get there. She’s going with us.
Are you going to marry her?
No, we’re just good friends.
Why?
Nothing.
Don’t “nothing” me, all right? What is it?
It’s too late.
Do you want a date with her?
Jesus, I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this!
Date, huh?
Well, it’ll have to be a fast date, I’ll tell you that.
Not now!
[McMurphy] Not now?
When, then?
When I have a free weekend.
You’re busy right now, are you?
You’ve got something to do right now?
You’ve got something to do?
No.
Good, then don’t talk to me about when you’re ready. Yeah.
Ready and everything like that.
No.
Candy, come here a minute.
[McMurphy] Candy, I want you to meet the famous Billy.
Go get him, will you?
Go get him. Get him out of there.
[McMurphy] I want you to get a hold of Billy…
All you gotta do is this one little thing.
[McMurphy] The kid’s cute, isn’t he?
[Candy] Yeah.
[Rhythmic Rattling]
[McMurphy] Think of me the whole time.
There he is.
[McMurphy] Billy the Club!
[Rattling Continues]
I got $25… that says you are going to burn this woman down!
Umum, boy!
[McMurphy] Candy, baby…
…I love ya.
Hurl the ringer.
[Candy Giggles]
[McMurphy] Take it easy! Back!
[McMurphy] No, no, I’ll show you some card tricks.
You ain’t seen the Spanish deck yet.
That’s 40 percent more torture.
[All Laugh]
[McMurphy] I’m going to present you with this fine deck of cards for playing.
[McMurphy] This ain’t gonna take long, Rose, you know what I mean?
[Laughter And Scattered Conversation, Background] When we get to Canada…
[Rose Sighs]
[Birds Chirping]
[Door Slams]
[Footsteps]
[Birds Chirping]
[Washington] Out of sight, man!
Out of sight!
[Door Slams]
[Birds Chirping]
[Washington] Good morning.
[Ratched] Good morning.
[Ratched] Mr. Warren… close the window, and lock the screen.
Right.
[Window slams]
[Ratched] Mr. Miller, show this woman the way out of the hospital.
[Miller] Gladly.
[Miller] Come on, lady, let’s go.
[Miller] You’re going home.
[Rose] Where?
Let her go, Scanlon.
You’re going home.
Mr. Washington?
Yes, Miss Ratched.
Make sure no one is missing.
[Washington] Will do.
[Washington]
Come on, Scanlon, let’s move.
[Washington] Everybody out of here!
Come on, move it out!
Come on, move it!
[Warren] Martini, get your butt up!
Come on, up!
All right, Colonel, get your dead ass up there!
[Warren] What the hell’s going on here?
Come on, move out!
[Door Squeaks Open]
Miss Ratched?
[Warren] Fredrickson, what are you doing?
[Washington] Where you going?
Back out here!
[Warren] Let’s go! Come on, move it!
[Washington] Taber, get up. Come on.
I said, get up!
[Washington]
All right, move it back there! McMurphy… get your ass over here, and bring Dracula with you.
[Washington] Stay right there, Bancini!
[Washington] Miss Ratched?
[Ratched] Yes.
[Washington] It looks like Billy Bibbit’s the only one missing.
Billy?
Thank you, Mr. Washington.
Okay.
Did Billy Bibbit leave the grounds of the hospital, gentlemen?
I want an answer to my question!
[Ratched] Did he leave the grounds of the hospital?
[Ratched] Mr. Washington?
[Washington] Yes.
Miss Pilbow, check all the rooms.
[Ratched] Mr. Warren?
[Warren] Yes.
You start with the tub room.
Mr. Martini?
[Ratched] May I have my cap, please?
My cap!
My cap!
[Ratched] There.
[Ratched] Thank you.
[Soft Chuckles]
[Pilbow] Miss Ratched.
[Chuckles]
[Door Slams]
[Keys Jingle]
[Clapping And Clanking]
[Crash]
[Clapping And Clanking]
[Laughs]
I can explain everything.
Please do, Billy.
Explain everything.
Everything?
Aren’t you ashamed?
No, I’m not.
[Applause]
You know, Billy, what worries me is… how your mother’s going to take this.
[Billy] Well, you… don’t have to… tell her, Miss Ratched.
I don’t have to tell her?
Your mother and I are old friends, you know that.
[Gasps]
[Billy] Please… don’t… tell my mother.
Don’t you think you should’ve thought of that before you took that woman… in that room?
No, no.
I didn’t.
I didn’t.
You mean, she dragged you in there by force?
She…
[Billy] She did.
Everybody did.
Everybody? Who did?
You tell me who did!
[Breathes Heavily]
[Billy] McMurphy.
Miss Ratched… please don’t…
[Ratched] Mr. Warren?
[Billy] …tell my mother, please.
Would you see that the men are washed and ready for the day.
[Billy] Miss Ratched, please…please…
[Ratched] Mr. Washington?
[Washington] Yes?
[Ratched] Put Billy in Dr. Spivey’s office.
[Billy] No…
[Ratched]
Stay with him till the doctor arrives.
[Billy] No…
[Hitting And Struggling Sounds]
[Warren] Move it!
Come on, Martini, get on!
[Shouting] No! No…no!
[Warren] Hey, that way, please.
Please, gentlemen.
Let’s go, come on.
Come on, you guys. What is this?
[McMurphy] Let’s go.
[Clanking]
[Warren] Hey, what the hell is that?
[Warren]
McMurphy, what the hell are you doing?
[Hitting And Crashing]
Aah…
[Ratched On Speaker] Washington, to the day room! Immediately!
[Rattling And Clanking]
[Washington] Put down those keys and nobody gets hurt.
[Birds Chirping]
[Washington] Move away from the window and take that damn Chief with you.
[Pilbow Screams]
[Candy] Come on, let’s go!
[Coughing]
[Ratched] Let me through!
Let me through!
[Ratched] Oh!
[Spivey] Out of the way, McMurphy!
[Miller] Come on, clear it!
[Spivey] Get these people out of here!
Oh, Billy!
[Miller] Will you guys clear the door?
[Ratched] Everybody out!
Out! Everybody out!
[Washington] Come on, goddamn it!
Now calm down!
The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.
[Ratched] All right?
[Yelling And Struggling Sounds]
[Harding] Don’t! Mac!
[Harding] Mac! No!
[Chokes]
[Groans]
[Coughs]
[Gasps]
[Shuffling Of Cards]
[Harding] And the bets are placed.
There’s one for Tabes, and Chessy, and Martini, and the dealer.
And a four to Tabes, and a six, and a nine… and a ten to the dealer.
[Martini] A nine?
[Harding] What do you say, Tabes?
A dime a piece.
No? You stick.
[Martini] He sticks.
[Harding] He sticks with a four.
[Cheswick] Chessy’s going for the ride.
[Harding] What does that mean?
[Harding] He wants a hit.
Yeah, and a big queen.
I think you’re busted.
[Cheswick] Buggered, not busted.
[Harding] Turn them over.
[Cheswick] Buggered.
[Harding] And weep.
[Martini] Hit me.
[Harding] I think you’re over.
[Harding] I know you’re over.
[Martini] Hovno.
[Harding] That’s a three. Hovno.
[Ratched On Speaker]
Mr. Sefelt?
Did everything go well?
That’s very nice.
Now you feel better, don’t you?
Yes, ma’am.
[Harding] Deuce to the dealer.
Split them. Higher.
McMurphy is out.
McMurphy has escaped.
They were taking him through the tunnel.
He beat up two of the attendants and escaped.
McMurphy’s upstairs.
Oh, no, no, no!
Jim, I’m telling you, McMurphy is upstairs… and he’s as meek as a lamb.
Really?
[Cheswick] I mean, how do you know?
Jack Dunphy told me.
Jack Dunphy’s full of shit!
[Sefelt] Right! Right!
[Attendants Mumble]
[Footsteps]
[Door Closes]
[Chief] They said you escaped. I knew you wouldn’t leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain.
[Chief] Oh, no!
[Chief sighs]
[Chief] [Sobs]
I’m not going without you, Mac. I wouldn’t leave you here this way.
[Sobs]
You’re coming with me.
[Whispers] Let’s go!
[Sounds Of Struggle]
[Heavy Breathing]
[Low Thud]
[Rhythmic Instrumental Melody, Background]
[Sighs]
[Water Gushing]
[Crashing]
[Laughter]
[Rhythmic Instrumental Melody Fading Off]
