One flew east,And one flew west,And one flew over the cuckoo""s nest.The novel was originally dramatized on Broadway (an adapted play by Dale Wasserman) beginning in 1963 with actor Kirk Douglas starring in the lead role as McMurphy and Gene Wilder as stuttering Billy Bibbit.Much of the film is in dead silence (accurately depicting the absence of sound in space), or with the sound of human breathing within a spacesuit.World War II has dawned in Europe:September 1939, the German forces defeated the Polish Army in two weeks.Her possessed, convulsing body screamed out: "Die, you f--king bitch!" before she finally woke up to reality.