The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red pays Youngblood cigarettes for securing the crew’s places.

Scene 47 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 29 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 47

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 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
Youngblood reads the selected names; Red, Andy, and their friends are chosen.
Scene 47
This scene

47INT -- PRISON CORRIDOR -- NIGHT (1949)

Red slips Youngblood six packs of cigarettes.

RED (V.O.)

Only cost us a pack of smokes per

man. I made my usual twenty

percent, of course.