The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

The men haul a cooler of beer to the roof.

Scene 49 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 33 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 49

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 46
Youngblood reads the selected names; Red, Andy, and their friends are chosen.
Scene 47
Red pays Youngblood cigarettes for securing the crew’s places.
Scene 48
Prisoners haul hot tar up to the factory roof.
Scene 49
This scene

49EXT -- LICENSE PLATE FACTORY -- DAY (1949)

As before, an object is hauled up the side of the building by rope -- only this time, it's a cooler of beer and ice.

RED (V.O.)

And that's how it came to pass,

that on the second-to-last day of

the job, the convict crew that

tarred the plate factory roof in

the spring of '49...