The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Youngblood reads the selected names; Red, Andy, and their friends are chosen.

Scene 46 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 46

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 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
Prisoners submit slips for the work detail as Red quietly approaches Youngblood.
Scene 46
This scene

46EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1949)

Youngblood is pulling names and reading them off. Red exchanges grins with Andy and the others.

RED (V.O.)

Wouldn't you know it? Me and some

fellas I know were among the names

called.