Wearing baby doll pajamas, she is curled up and taking a nap with her thumb in her mouth.Sexually-appealing, one of her legs is draped provocatively off the end of the crib.She is peered at lecherously through a small, cracked hole in the wall from the adjoining room on he second floor of a once-grand, now ramshackle, decaying plantation mansion in rural Mississippi.The first scenes to be shot were on grainy 16 mm.in New Orleans (during Mardi Gras) on a budget of $12,000, afterwards followed by funds for a total budget of $360,000.The film""s unauthorized screenplay (by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman) was restructured and adapted from author Ken Kesey""s 1962 popular, best-selling novel of the same name so that it would appeal to contemporary audiences.The front of the bus fills the screen, with its several state licenses, lit headlights, and its destination over the front window: NEW YORK.