From ‘Ratched’ to ‘Inspector Morse’: Why we all love a prequel – The Independent

Nurse Ratched appears on the very first page of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and her presence looms large over both the rest of the book and the 1975 film adaptation.
She is the bête noire of Randle Patrick McMurphy, rebellious inmate of the Salem State Hospital (played so memorably by Jack Nicholson in the movie), the head nurse who rules the mental hospital with an iron fist covered not so much by a velvet glove, but vibrant nail polish.
Known to the inmates as Big …

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