The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red opens the package and finds the small rock hammer Andy requested.

Scene 37 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 24 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 37

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.
Just before
Scene 34
A laundry truck delivers dirty bags; one package is marked for Leonard to conceal.
Scene 35
Leonard hides Andy’s package in the laundry stream.
Scene 36
Red uses the laundry exchange to retrieve the clean bundle carrying Andy’s package.
Scene 37
This scene

37INT -- RED'S CELL -- DAY (1947)

Red slips the package out of his sheets, carefully checks to make sure nobody's coming, then rips it open.

He pulls out the rock-hammer. It's just as Andy described. Red laughs softly.

RED (V.O.)

Andy was right. I finally got the

joke. It would take a man about six

hundred years to tunnel under the

wall with one of these.