The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red and the others hide a box of rocks for Andy’s return.

Scene 60 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 60

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 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
The men collect rocks in the field for Andy’s hobby.
Scene 60
This scene

60INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- BACK ROOM -- DAY (1949)

A huge detergent box is filled with rocks, hidden in the shadows behind a boiler furnace.

RED (V.O.)

...and by the week Andy was due

back, we had enough rocks saved up

to keep him busy till Rapture.

ANGLE SHIFTS to Red as he plops a bag of "laundry" on the floor. Leonard and Bob toss a few more down. Red starts pulling out contraband, giving them their commissions.

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

Also got a big shipment in that

week. Cigarettes, chewing gum,

shoelaces, playing cards with naked

ladies on 'em, you name it...

(pulls a cardboard tube)

...and, of course, the most

important item.