there are a couple scenes that have always stuck with me: Paul Newman sauntering into an office and casually plunking down his giant logger's chainsaw on buddy's desk and then starting it up, slicing through the thing, and later on, buddy getting trapped under a fallen tree along the shoreline, as the tide begins to rise, gradually drowning him, despite Newman's attempts to save him with alternate yelling for help/underwater mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. That drowning, panicky face - whoa.

This has to be a disappointment for any fan of Kesey's largely successful attempt to write the Great American Novel, since this movie is small in its ambitions and limited in its achievement. Henry Fonda and Paul Newman are very good together as father and son, though, and Richard Jaeckel gives one of his best performances. Not a bad way to pass the time.