The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red finds ten dollars in Andy’s note and later learns Andy smuggled in much more.

Scene 33 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 23 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 33

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.
Just before
Scene 30
Unable to sleep, Andy lies awake in his cell.
Scene 31
Andy approaches Red in the yard, introduces himself, and asks him to obtain a rock hammer.
Scene 32
Andy slips Red a folded note at breakfast.
Scene 33
This scene

33INT -- RED'S CELL -- NIGHT (1947)

Lying on his bunk, Red unfolds the square. A ten dollar bill.

RED (V.O.)

He was a man who adapted fast.