The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Andy returns to the laundry as Red recalls his brutal first years.

Scene 43 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 28 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 43

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 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
Bruised Andy sits in solitary; Red describes the Sisters’ repeated attacks.
Scene 43
This scene

43INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1949)

Andy is working the line.

RED (V.O.)

And that's how it went for Andy.

That was his routine. I do believe

those first two years were the

worst for him. And I also believe

if things had gone on that way,

this place would have got the best

of him. But then, in the spring of

1949, the powers-that-be decided

that...