Early Edition

With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. There he encounters a motley crew of mostly voluntary inmates, including cowed mama's boy Billy (Brad Dourif) and silent Native American Chief Bromden (Will Sampson), presided over by the icy Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Ratched and McMurphy recognize that each is the other's worst enemy: an authority figure who equates sanity with correct behavior, and a misfit who is charismatic enough to dismantle the system simply by living as he pleases. McMurphy proceeds to instigate group insurrections large and small, ranging from a restorative basketball game to an unfettered afternoon boat trip and a tragic after-hours party with hookers and booze.

Through the lens, often deforming of the camera, 'Mondo Di Notte' presents for the first time a company's image dominated from eros and shot with a sometimes gruesome violence. Products in the late '50s and early '60s, 'Mondo Di Notte ', 'Mondo Di Notte 2 ' and 'Mondo Di Notte 3 ', in a crescendo of impressive actors and events, were among the earliest film than in the sixties and eighties it was presented as one of the most distinctive and innovative film genres, the "movie world", indeed.