The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Prisoners across Shawshank stop work to listen to the music.

Scene 110 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:00 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 110

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scene 31
Andy and Red begin the friendship that will carry the film’s argument about hope and connection.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Just before
Scene 107
Andy barricades the doors, takes the microphone, and prepares to broadcast the record.
Scene 108
Mozart’s opera begins playing through the prison PA.
Scene 109
Wiley jumps up in the bathroom, tangling his pants around his ankles.
Scene 110
This scene

110INT/EXT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- VARIOUS LOCATIONS -- DAY

(1955)

Cons all over the prison stop whatever they're doing, freezing in mid-step to listen, gazing up at the speakers. The stamping machines in the plate shop are shut down... 137 The laundry line goes silent, grinding to a halt... 138 The wood shop machines are turned off, buzzing to a stop... 139 The motor pool...the kitchen...the loading dock...the exercise 140 thru yard...the numbing routine of prison life itself...all grinds thru to a stuttering halt. Nobody moves, nobody speaks. Everybody 143 just stands in place, listening to the MUSIC, hypnotized.