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Sometimes a Great Notion is the second novel by American author Ken Kesey, published in 1964. While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus.
Mar 2, 1972 · Sometimes a Great Notion: Directed by Paul Newman. With Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin. A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.
Sometimes a Great Notion (a.k.a. Never Give A Inch on some commercial television broadcasts) is a 1971 American drama film directed by Paul Newman and starring Newman, Henry Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, and Lee Remick. The cast also includes Richard Jaeckel in an Academy Award-nominated performance.
Paul Newman 's "Sometimes a Great Notion" tells sort of an old-fashioned story about prideful clans carving empires out of the wilderness. The characters seem a little familiar, too. Take the three most important.
Sometimes a Great Notion is a strange duck of a film about a timber family in 1970s Oregon. Large sections of the film are just logging action (like a Discovery Channel Reality Show). Newman...
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Aug 29, 2006 · Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) Paperback – August 29, 2006. by Ken Kesey (Author), Charles Bowden (Introduction) 4.5 1,286 ratings. See all formats and editions. The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Synopsis. The logging town of Wakonda, Oregon has been thrown in economic despair because of the local union's strike against a large lumber combine. When the Stamper family, who own an independent logging business, refuse to join the strikers, they are considered traitors by the locals. One day, union president Jonathan Draeger arrives to ...
Sometimes A Great Notion (which, btw, gets its title from the Ledbelly song "Goodnight Irene") is the story of the Stamper family, renegade loggers in Oregon in maybe the fifties. It's an incredible family—Henry, the patriarch, the crazed, stubborn old goat who started the logging business; his son Hank (stoic, serious, earnest, proud ...
Sometimes a Great Notion [HBO] HD. The lusty, brawling members of an Oregon logging family refuse to join the union on strike in this stirring saga with Paul Newman.
A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. Hank Stamper and his father, Henry Stamper own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon.
