In 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. But for all the acclaim the film’s star, Jack Nicholson, received for the contrarian antics of R.P. McMurphy, and the career-defining performance of Louise Fletcher as the evil Nurse Ratched, perhaps the moment audiences best remember is when McMurphy offers a stick of gum to Chief Bromden (Will Sampson), and the “deaf and dumb Indian” responds, “Mmmmmm, Juicy Fruit.”
“If anyone could steal a scene from Jack Nicholson, Sampson is the man,” wrote in its review.
