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Milos Forman directs this 1970s classic movie with Jack Nicholson & Louis Fletcher about ugly experiences in a mental institution. Nicholson plays a war veteran who plays crazy to get out of jail for having sex with a very underage girl & sent to this mental hospital run by cold, one may call them 'heartless' depends how some will view it & tyrannical staff members. Louis Fletcher, known for her roles in early tv Westerns like Maverick, Bat Masterson & other tv shows] plays a tough US Army nurse, Nurse Ratchet, who don't tolerate patients going against her. There is coldness, strict rules, patients are not allow to do everything they want & are controlled constantly. Many fans of this picture tend to view Nicholson's role as some 'hero' & Nurse Ratcher as some 'bad girl' or villain. Scenes I hated was practicing lobotomy to unruly patients which I know today is totally banned. And while I criticize Nurse Radner's response to what happened to one of her patients [won't say what he did to prevent a spoiler] & also criticizing Nicholson's attitude after ward, today in many of these institutions there are channels to send complains of staff wrong doings. And while so many viewers expressed hatred toward the nurse, I seem to understand her. Nursing is tough & people should know they don't have it easy.

PS: A friend of mine has a daughter working as a nurse in a mental institution & prefer the night's shifts. Because most patients are sleeping. Daylight hours they are moving around.

Three old engineers facing a lonely Christmas do a trick of sending wallets each with $10.00 dollars to the snow & see who will pick it up. One engineer is a cheerful sixty something man, the second an old British Army engineer who longs for his son who died battling Germans in WW1 & the third, a more cynical guy, who thinks nothing will come out, his old girlfriend picked up the wallet & gave it as a tip to his Black chauffer. The result is they meet a young cowboy from Texas, & a young lady teacher. The couple gets in love but then the old three guys are killed in a plane crash, & come back as ghosts. And tried to protect the couple from an evil girlfriend of the most cynical of the three gentlemen trying to subvert the cowboy who later became a popular singer. Hard to say if is a religious or philosophical movie but the moral lessons are there to watch. While is implicit showing 'after life spirits' one can see anybody, even unbelievers, can watch this classic. Hard to see why it has been forgotten, & knowing the 1930s to early 1950s was the 'Golden Age' in Hollywood's movies that gave us such classics like 'Gone with the Wing', 'Wizard of Oz', 'Citizen Kane', 'Casablanca', 'Is a Wonderful Life' & 'Third Man', is harder to explain why it has been forgotten. Highly recommended!