Still An Award-Winning Movie After 22 Years!!!

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2016)

I can honestly say that, even after all these years of being seen on Cable-TV and being sold on D.V.D., "Shawshank Redemption" is still the all-time best prison movie I have ever seen, bar-none. In fact, I want to go on record of saying that it's a real shame that it didn't win any or enough Academy Awards, because God knows it deserved to. At the very least Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman both deserved a nomination for their performances, because they always put out great performances, now can anyone on this site dispute that, yes or no? And of course I can also comment positively on some of the other actors in the movie: there's Bob Gunton, who portrayed the ruthless and corruptible Warden Norton with such flair; then there's Clancy Brown, whom I remember as Kurgan from 1986's "Highlander", who was excellent as Byron Hadley; and of course William Sadler, Col. Stuart from "Die Hard 2", was funny as Heywood; Mark Rolston was okay as Boggs; Gil Bellows, who was Tommy who knew the real guy who killed Dufresne's wife and lover and was killed before he could tell anyone else, heck he looked like he did some Elvis Presley impersonating in his time; and let's not forget the legendary James Whitmore, who played Brooksie, enough said there.