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The Shawshank Redemption scene 14: INT -- PRISON CHAPEL -- NIGHT (1947) · The Reading Room

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The Shawshank Redemption
Scene 14

The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

The naked newcomers sit in the chapel as the chaplain recites scripture.

Scene 14 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Chaplain

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 12 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 14

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.
Just before
Scene 11
Chained Andy arrives at Shawshank as inmates jeer from the yard.
Scene 12
Norton welcomes the new arrivals with scripture and discipline; Hadley threatens them.
Scene 13
The newcomers endure humiliating medical inspections.
Scene 14
This scene

14INT -- PRISON CHAPEL -- NIGHT (1947)

CAMERA TRACKS the naked newcomers shivering on hard wooden chairs, clothes on their laps, Bibles open.

CHAPLAIN (O.S.)

...maketh me to lie down in green

pastures. He leadeth me beside the

still waters. He restoreth my

soul...

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