The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Bruised Andy sits in solitary; Red describes the Sisters’ repeated attacks.

Scene 42 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 27 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 42

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 39
Red reads Andy’s one-word thank-you note.
Scene 40
Andy becomes competent at laundry work and is sent to fetch Hexlite.
Scene 41
In the laundry stock rooms, the Sisters corner and assault Andy.
Scene 42
This scene

42INT -- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ("THE HOLE") -- NIGHT (1949)

A stone closet. No bed, sink, or lights. Just a toilet with no seat. Andy sits on bare concrete, bruised face lit by a faint ray of light falling through the tiny slit in the steel door.

RED (V.O.)

...the other half, it landed him in

solitary. Warden Norton's "grain &

drain" vacation. Bread, water, and

all the privacy you could want.