The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Andy becomes competent at laundry work and is sent to fetch Hexlite.

Scene 40 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 25 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 40

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 37
Red opens the package and finds the small rock hammer Andy requested.
Scene 38
Brooks passes the hammer to Red through the rolling library cart, and Red passes it to Andy.
Scene 39
Red reads Andy’s one-word thank-you note.
Scene 40
This scene

40INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1947)

We are assaulted by the deafening noise of the laundry line. Andy is doing his job, getting good at it.

BOB

DUFRESNE! WE'RE LOW ON HEXLITE!

HEAD ON BACK AND FETCH US UP SOME!

Andy nods. He leaves the line, weaving his way through the laundry room and into --