And because this was Ronald Colman""s first film made for Columbia Studios since his work inLost Horizon (1937), he role propelled his career forward.)The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy questions: "God Almighty, she""s got you guys comin"" or goin"".The film""s morality tale of corruption ends with its ultimate defeat and the saving of the community by a morally-redeemed martyr (a common man with a conscience).Everyone is baffled and wonderstruck.One of the researchers, David Laughlin from the opening sequence, exclaims and asks: "I don""t believe it.