Featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda Paul Newman Lee Remick & Michael Sarrazin Sometimes a Great Notion is based on the novel by Ken Kesey [ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest]. A family of Oregonian loggers led by patriarch Henry [ Fonda] live & work by the family motto ‘never give an inch.’ When the townspeople go on strike the determined Stamper family refuse to join in & continue logging. When Henry is incapacitated by a broken arm it is left to his son Hank [ Newman] to take charge & pull the family together. Whilst Hank is distracted by the family’s struggle to meet their targets his bored wife Viv [ Remick] is reconnecting with the errant Leland [ Sarrazin] Hank’s brother who has suddenly reappeared after leaving the town ten years before. When sabotage by the townspeople destroys vital logging equipment Henry turns to increasingly desperate methods & events threaten to build to an explosive climax.