The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Morning count begins, and Red studies Andy among the new prisoners.

Scene 26 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 17 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 26

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.
Scene 11
Andy crosses Shawshank’s gate and enters the prison system that will define his life.
Just before
Scene 23
Heywood celebrates winning his bet that Fat-Ass would break first.
Scene 24
Fat-Ass screams for home as the cellblock joins in the “fresh fish” chant.
Scene 25
Red sees blood where Hadley beat Fat-Ass and recalls that Andy cost him a bet.
Scene 26
This scene

26INT -- CELLBLOCK FIVE -- MORNING (1947)

LOUD BUZZER. The master locks are thrown -- KA-THUMP! The cons step from their cells, lining the tiers. The GUARDS holler their head-counts to the HEAD BULL, who jots on a clipboard. Red peers at Andy, checking him out. Andy stands in line, collar buttoned, hair combed.