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Based on a novel by Stephen King 6 Directed by Frank Darabont Illustrations By: Edwin Tunis Photographs By: Abby Scheuerman
The year is 1892...
A young Portland banker, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), was convicted of the murder of Linda Dufresne and Glenn Quintin, his wife and her lover, respectively. Andy was adamant in defending his innocence, but the evidence against him was overwhelming. He was sentenced to two life sentences in Shawshank State Penitentiary.
THE SENTENCE uring the first night, the chief guard, Byron Hadley, savagely beats an overweight and newly arrived inmate because of his crying and hysterics. The inmate later dies in the infirmary because the prison doctor had left for the night. Meanwhile, Andy remained steadfast and composed. Red bet against others that Andy would be the one to break down first and loses a considerable amount of cash. Red has been in prison for several years having been given three consecutive life sentences for the murder of his wife and two others.
About a month later, Andy approaches Red, who runs contraband inside the walls of Shawshank. He asks Red to find him a rock hammer, an instrument he claims is necessary for his hobby of rock collecting and sculpting. Though other prisoners consider Andy “a really cold fish,” Red sees something in Andy, and likes him from the start. Red believes Andy intends to use the hammer to engineer his escape in the future but when the tool arrives and he sees how small it is, Red puts aside the thought that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison.
Andy's prison cell at Shawshank Penetentairy
During the first two years of his incarceration, Andy works in the prison laundry. He attracts attention from “the Sisters,” a group of prisoners who sexually assault other prisoners. Though he persistently resists and fights them, Andy is beaten and raped on a regular basis.
FEELING FREE Red pulls some strings and gets Andy and a few of their mutual friends a break by getting them all on a work detail tarring the roof of one of the prison's buildings. During the job Andy overhears Hadley complaining about having to pay taxes for an upcoming inheritance. Drawing on his expertise as a banker, Andy lets Hadley know how he can shelter his money from the IRS, turning it into a one-time gift for his wife. He says he'll assist in exchange for some cold beers for his fellow inmates while on the tarring job. Though he at first threatens to throw Andy off the roof, Hadley, the most brutal guard in the prison, agrees, providing the men with cold beer before the job
"WE SAT AND DRANK WITH THE SUN ON OUR SHOULDERS AND FELT LIKE FREE MEN."
"THOSE VOICES SOARED HIGHER AND FARTHER THAN ANYBODY IN A GRAY PLACE DARES TO DREAM."
THE SCANDAL Not long afterward, Brooks, the old librarian, threatens to kill another prisoner, Heywood, in order to avoid being paroled. Andy is able to talk him down and Brooks is paroled. He goes to a halfway house but finds it impossible to adjust to life outside the prison. He eventually commits suicide. When his friends suggest that he was crazy for doing so, Red tells them that Brooks had obviously become "institutionalized." Red remarks: "These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them."
Andy’s financial responsibilities start with filing the guards’ tax returns, but they soon expand to laundering money for the various prison wardens, including Bible-thumping Samuel Norton. Andy has no moral objection to hiding the money that Norton receives from construction companies, but he doesn’t realize that doing so also hurts his chances of ever leaving Shawshank.
A RAY OF HOPE A new inmate named Tommy Williams arrives at Shawshank and tells Andy that he served time in another prison with Elwood Blatch, a man who privately admitted to killing tennis pro Glenn Quentin. When Andy asks Norton to request a retrial, Norton dismisses Andy’s claims and puts him in solitary confinement for more than a month on the “grain and drain” diet of bread and water. Norton, meanwhile, transfers Tommy Williams to another prison out of fear that Andy would expose his money laundering operation if paroled. After another aborted attempt to reason with the warden and another stint in solitary, Andy drops the issue and becomes more brooding and introspective. Eventually Andy emerges from his lengthy depression and tells Red one day that he had a friend set up a false identity
for him. Under the false identity, the friend invested $14,000 of Andy’s money, which has since become more than $370,000. Andy, however, can’t touch the money, saved under his alternate identity, because he would risk exposing himself and losing everything. The documents and lucrative bonds are kept in a safe-deposit box at a local bank, the key to which has been stashed under a black volcanic rock wedged into a stone wall in the countryside near the prison. Andy dreams of escaping, assuming the new identity, and becoming the proprietor of a small hotel in Mexico. Andy also imagines Red going with him. Red thinks nothing of this until years later when the prison guards find Andy’s cell empty one morning. The guards search the prison but find nothing, until an extremely frustrated Norton rips the pinup poster from the wall to reveal a gaping hole in the thick concrete. The hole leads to the sewage drainpipe, which empties into the marshes surrounding Shawshank. Red figures that Andy slowly and systematically used the rock hammer and polishing cloths every night for nearly twenty years to carve through the wall. After completing his hole, Red also figures that it took Andy roughly eight years to muster the courage to actually try to escape.
"FOR THE BRIEFEST OF MOMENTS, EVERY LAST MAN IN SHAWSHANK
Andy Dufresne THE COLD FISH
Short, neat, and meticulous, Andy may be the most clever man in Shawshank. Most of the other inmates think that he is cold and snobbish, rarely revealing his inner thoughts or true character, but he still remains the sole escapee from Shawshank Penitentiary. Age: 30 Hair: Sandy Blonde Eyes: Blue Height: 5' 8" Weight: 151 lbs Inmate Number: 37279 Offence: Two Counts of Murder Sentence: Lifetime Years Spent Picking at a Wall: 20 Letters Written: 105 Books Read: 230 Catch Phrase: "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Hobbies: Shaping and polishing rocks into chess pieces and swimming in the lake Life After Shawshank: Lives and runs a hotel in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Spends most of his time repairing boats and taking his guests out on boat rides.
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THE MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET THINGS
Need a pack of smokes or a poster of a naked lady for your cell? Red's your guy. Sentenced for life in prison for murdering his wife, Red has made Shawshank his home and his trading business. Age: 25 Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Height: 5' 11" Weight: 162 lbs Inmate Number: 30265 Offence: First Degree Murder Sentence: Lifetime Cigarette Packs Traded: 3,583 Money Made from Smuggling: $100 Inspirational Quotes: 25 Catch Phrase: "Get busy living for get busy dying" Hobbies: Buying and trading with local merchants and playing chess with his best friend Life After Shawshank: Lives in Zihuatanejo with Andy and manages the hotel they built together. Spends his free time drinking a cold one, soaking up the sun by the beach, enjoying being a free man.
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"HOPE IS A GOOD THING, MAYBE THE BEST OF THINGS, AND NO GOOD THING
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