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Randle Patrick McMurphy is an Irish American brawler found guilty of battery, gambling and statutory rape. He is a Korean War veteran who was a POW during the war and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a breakout from a Chinese camp, but was dishonorably discharged for insubordination. He is sentenced to serve six months at ...
The book is narrated by Chief Bromden, a gigantic half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf, mute, and docile. Bromden's tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than at a prison work farm.
In 1982 Greg Hersov directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Jonathan Hackett as Randle McMurphy, Linda Marlowe as Nurse Ratched and Tim McInnerny as Billy Bibbitt. [5] In April 1988, the Playhouse Theatre was the site for the first London production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The play was brought to the London ...
Starring Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a convict feigning insanity to escape a hard labor sentence at a state psychiatric hospital, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a stirring drama based ...
In Ken Kesey's classic 1962 novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Randle McMurphy leads an uprising in his ward against the despotic Nurse Ratched, raising the question: Who are the real ...
Released in 1975, the movie stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a charismatic and rebellious inmate in a mental institution who inspires his fellow patients to challenge the oppressive ...
McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them. Billy refuses but asks for a "date" with Candy; McMurphy arranges for him to have sex with her. McMurphy and the others get drunk, and McMurphy falls asleep instead of escaping with Chief. Ratched arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray; most patients have ...
When Randle McMurphy arrives at the hospital, he flouts her rules with impunity and inspires other patients to follow. Her attempts to cow him into submission—at first with threats and mild punishments, then with shock therapy —are unsuccessful, serving only to fuel his defiance.