The shawshank redemption [videorecording - DVD] / a Frank Darabont film

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [United Kingdom?] : Carlton International Media Ltd., 1994Description: 1 videodisc (136 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Produced by Niki Marvin; Directed by Frank Darabont; Screenplay written by Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan FreemanScope and content: Andy Dufresne, a bank executive, is sentenced to two life sentences for murdering his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. In Shawshank State Prison, he becomes friends with Red, who smuggles goods into the prison. After other prisoners beat him up, Red gives Andy a poster of Rita Heyworth. Andy uses his financial expertise to do the books for the warden̕s crooked schemes. Gil, a new prisoner, tells Andy that a man in another prisoner said that he killed a banker̕s wife and her lover. When Andy informs the warden, he throws Andy into solitary and has Gil killed. Behind the poster of Heyworth and other pin-ups, Andy has been digging a tunnel, through which he escapes to Mexico with the warden̕s money and after leaving evidence of the warden̕s crimes. When Red is finally released, he joins Andy
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Based on the short novel "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King

Produced by Niki Marvin; Directed by Frank Darabont; Screenplay written by Frank Darabont

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

Andy Dufresne, a bank executive, is sentenced to two life sentences for murdering his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. In Shawshank State Prison, he becomes friends with Red, who smuggles goods into the prison. After other prisoners beat him up, Red gives Andy a poster of Rita Heyworth. Andy uses his financial expertise to do the books for the warden̕s crooked schemes. Gil, a new prisoner, tells Andy that a man in another prisoner said that he killed a banker̕s wife and her lover. When Andy informs the warden, he throws Andy into solitary and has Gil killed. Behind the poster of Heyworth and other pin-ups, Andy has been digging a tunnel, through which he escapes to Mexico with the warden̕s money and after leaving evidence of the warden̕s crimes. When Red is finally released, he joins Andy

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