The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

The men collect rocks in the field for Andy’s hobby.

Scene 59 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 40 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 59

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.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Just before
Scene 56
Bogs serves a week in solitary for the attack.
Scene 57
Bogs returns to the cellblock, where Hadley and Mert beat him until he is left crippled.
Scene 58
Bogs, wheelchair-bound after Hadley’s beating, is loaded into an ambulance and transferred to a hospital.
Scene 59
This scene

59EXT -- FIELD -- DAY (1949)

A HUNDRED CONS at work. Hoes rise and fall in long waves. GUARDS patrol on horseback.

Heywood turns up a rocky chunk, quickly shoves it down his pants. He maneuvers to Red and the others, pulls out the chunk and shows it to them.

FLOYD

That ain't quartz. Nor limestone.

HEYWOOD

What are you, fuckin' geologist?

SNOOZE

He's right, it ain't.

HEYWOOD

What the hell is it then?

RED

Horse apple.

HEYWOOD

Bullshit.

RED

No, horse shit. Petrified.

Cackling, the men go back to work. Heywood stares at the rock. He crumbles it in his hands.

RED (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Despite a few hitches, the boys

came through in fine style...