(In the novel, McMurphy was a stocky redhead with a poorly-stitched gash across his cheekbone and nose.This superb film was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Plot SynopsisDuring the opening scrolling prologue after the credits, Hellinger (in voice-over) apologetically informs the audience that he film ("a memory") is based upon facts, real people and events that he covered as a newsman during the 1920s - when Prohibition, speakeasies and gangster life pervaded the land:FOREWORDIt may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This 1992 film was adapted from Tom Clancy""s 1987 novel of the same name.However, chronologically, its events predated the events found inThe Hunt for Red October(novel: 1984, film: 1990).Wren (J.E.Freeman) described for Ripley the promise of "...urban pacification, new alloys, new vaccines"), including producing a new generation of spawned adult aliens.