The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Prisoners submit slips for the work detail as Red quietly approaches Youngblood.

Scene 45 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 45

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 42
Bruised Andy sits in solitary; Red describes the Sisters’ repeated attacks.
Scene 43
Andy returns to the laundry as Red recalls his brutal first years.
Scene 44
Norton recruits a dozen prisoners to resurface the license-plate factory roof.
Scene 45
This scene

45EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1949)

Cons shuffle past, dropping slips of paper into a bucket.

RED (V.O.)

More than a hundred men volunteered

for the job.

Red saunters to a guard named TIM YOUNGBLOOD, mutters discreetly in his ear.