Prison
Featured in · The Shawshank Redemption
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Story in the film
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Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Cast
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Ned Bellamy
Actor · as Guard Youngblood
V.J. Foster
Actor · as Hungry Fish Con
Morgan Freeman
Actor · as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Rob Reider
Actor · as Duty Guard
