Andy Dufresne | Shawshank Redemption Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Andy helped ex-German soldier Kurt Dussander forge documents to allow entry to the United States. A year later, in 1947 Andy was charged with the double murder of his wife and the man she was cheating with. He received 2 life sentences for the double murders; although, Andy insisted he did not commit this crime. Before his incarceration, Andy was the vice president of a big bank which Red said was good work for such a young man. The night he arrived at Shawshank, Red made a bet that Andy would be the first one to break down crying, but Andy did not make a sound. The first two years were really harsh on Andy. He was targetted by the sisters, and originally ignored by many of the inmates. Over time though he built up a friendship with Red, though his harassment by the Sisters continued. Eventually, however, Andy was able to use his skills to turn his life around. Andy was able to help the warden and the prison staff because of his knowledge of finances and tax law.

As a result he was exempt from manual labour and harassment by his fellow inmates, (Captain Hadley even beat up the lead Sister Bogs following an assault, which left Andy in the infirmary for a month). Taking on a position at the Library Andy wrote letters to the state for six years asking for books and funds to help build a prison library. After he succeeded in getting funds for the library, he was thrown in The hole for playing Duettino Sull'aria over the loud speakers so the entire prison can hear. Even so Andy was not deterred. He continued to send letters until the state finally relented and sent him an annual fund of $500 "just to shut him up." Throughout the early 1960's, Andy built the Brooks Hatlen Memorial Library . By 1963 he had built the finest prison library in all of New England. The same year, the warden started his new public service program where the prisoners would work outside the walls. In reality it was simply a way for the Warden to make money from the cheap labor of the inmates. Andy, using an entity named Randall Stephens, laundered the Warden's illicit profit.

In 1965 Tommy Williams arrived at Shawshank and Andy and his friends took a liking to him soon after he arrived. Soon he was a part of their gang. Tommy wanted to try for his GED so Andy helped him. When he took his test he thought he had failed and had a breakdown. Andy sent in the test anyway, and Tommy passed with a C+ average. Following a conversation with Red about Andy, Tommy came to a horrible revelation. He told Red and Andy he knew who really killed Andy's wife and her lover. It was his former cellmate at another prison, Elmo Blatch . Andy went to the warden and told him about the new evidence. The Warden didn't want to let Andy get a new trial and leave Shawshank, so after Andy called him obtuse, he sent Andy to the hole. During Andy's stay in the hole, Tommy was murdered by the Warden and Captain Hadley . Once his original stint in the hole was done Andy was blackmailed by the Warden and given another month to think about his options. It was at this moment that Andy realised that the warden was never going to let him leave Shawshank State Penitentiary.

Escape Edit Andy Dufresne's escape. In 1966, Andy escaped from Shawshank Prison. He spent 19 years tunneling through the wall of his cell with his Rock Hammer , his hole covered by his poster of Raquel Welch. After Tommy was shot by Hadley under the command of Norton because he knew information that could support Andy's innocence, Andy decided he had been there long enough. He waited for a stormy night, whereupon he took the warden's shoes, and one of his suits, whilst hiding his rock hammer in the bible he had been issued upon his arrival, which he swapped for the Warden's leagur. He procured a 6-foot length rope, and tied a plastic bag filled with records and books. He crawled through the tunnel. After that he attempted to bust a pipe open in unison with the thunder, to mask the sound of his blows to the pipe. After three attempts, the pipe burst and opened. He crawled through 500 yards of sewage, coming out into a river. He ripped off his inmate clothing, basking in his freedom. The next day, Andy walked into the Bank of Portland and nearly a dozen other banks.

Posing as Randall Stephens, he withdrew more than $370,000 of the warden's money ("severance pay for 19 years"). He also mailed the evidence of their financial crimes to the Daily Bugle , presumably along with evidence of his own innocence. When the story was published, Captain Hadley was arrested and Warden Norton committed suicide to avoid arrest for his crimes. He later crossed into Mexico at Fort Hancock , before settling down in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, on the beach while he stared into the horizon. After a few years, Red got released from prison and joined Andy. A prominent feature of his temperament is his introverted nature. Most of the time, Andy tends to be soft spoken and quiet. When he escapes, he is triumphant. The details of his escape plan showed his determination and intelligence. In the end, his patience and hard work paid off. Andy Escapes - YouTube Andy Escapes Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Uploaded on Mar 30, 2008 Escape scene from The Shawshank Redemption. Category Why Did Andy Dufresne Escape from Shawshank? | FlowingData Why Did Andy Dufresne Escape from Shawshank? Posted to Statistics | Nathan Yau If I were to skip straight to the part in The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Durfesne climbs out of the pipe of poo (and put it on mute), someone who never saw the movie might see an escaped convict who steals money from a warden and fleas to some random place in Mexico called Zihuatanejo. Out of grief, the warden kills himself and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding eventually teams up with Andy to commit more crimes. Those of us who have seen the movie though know this isn’t the case. Why? Because we saw the whole movie and have context. Context Matters As Andrew, a FlowingData reader, put it, “For statistics to be useful, it needs to be explained in a context.” When I get my hands on some data, whether I’m analyzing or visualizing, I want to know the context of data first.

I want to know who collected the data, how it was collected, when it was collected, and what was done to it before it arrived in my hands. Without that meta-information, I could easily make an incorrect assumption about the data or misrepresent it somehow in a visualization – which is very bad. Simply put, we use visualization and statistics to tell stories with data. If we don’t have all the information, then we can’t tell a complete story. plot explanation - How could Andy Dufresne do so much after his escape without being caught? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange How could Andy Dufresne do so much after his escape without being caught? up vote 25 down vote favorite At the end of The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne escapes from the prison in the night, then during the next day he uses his fake identity and runs several banks, gets a convertible car and makes a cache in some remote quiet place that Red later finds, then he flees to Mexico. Now banks don't open earlier than at 8 in the morning, more likely 9 in the morning.

Just visiting each bank takes perhaps 20 minutes plus, also Andy was withdrawing large sums of money and it's quite common for banks to require a notice in advance in such cases so that the bank surely has enough cash. Those were different banks and they were likely not on the same square of the same town, so he also had to travel between them. With the money he could get a car but that also takes some time. Finally he goes to the remote quiet place to make a cache. All of this takes time and even though Andy acts under his fake identity he acts in open, his face is not concealed so he could have been identified if he was searched for anywhere near the banks. Yet no one searches for him except near the prison and he escapes easily. How is that possible? Seems like it took Andy a long time to get to Mexico. He escapes in 1966 and Red imagines him driving his 1969 Pontiac LeMans down to the Mexican border and the Pacific Ocean.

– user9221 Apr 22 '14 at 5:47 up vote 39 down vote You're forgetting a few important points; Andy Dufresne escaped Shawshank in 1966 - around this time many of the modern security measures in place in the banking industry did not exist Andy Dufresne had all of the valid identification and signatures, matching up with the account holders, as he had set up the accounts Banks open at around 8am Let's not forget, Andy was an exceptionally intelligent banker, he knew exactly what he needed to say in order to withdraw the contents of each of these accounts with the least amount of friction Considering his intelligence, it makes sense he would have planned which order to visit each bank, to ensure that he went to the closest ones first and travelled out to the furthest one last If you consider that lights on had been at 8am, there was a 30-60 minute period while the warden investigated how he had escaped, it would have taken the prison guards at least another hour or so to follow Andy's route out of prison, and in the scene where the guards and dogs are following the sewage route out of the prison, the sun is high

 in the sky Andy would have purchased the car with cash, and again many of the fraud methods used today did not exist back then Now, in regards to Andy acting out in the open - CCTV wasn't around back then, the only way the banks would have known is if the police had been in with a picture.

Considering the timeframe highlighted above of "several hours" - Andy would have already been in the car by this point. By the time Andy has got in the convertible, he is going to be uncatchable short of some very bad luck. He heads out into a field in the middle of nowhere to hide his cache for Red to later find, and then heads off to Mexico, which is outside of the jurisdiction of the USA. I believe there was enough time for Andy to have completed his tasks. Consider this: Andy misses roll call and the guard discovers his cell is empty. At the same time the Warden discovers Andy left his old shoes in the shoe box. The warden travels down and discovers Andy is the one missing. He orders everyone on the cell block questioned, starting with Red. The warden orders Hadley to find him. Because Andy was in his cell the previous night they probably think he should be close by. A few minutes later they discover the hole in the wall. They had to take time to send someone in the hole to the sewer line, and then to either go through the sewer line (which Andy may still be in) or discover its outlet.

Considering the interviewing of the other prisoners, going through the escape route and the initial search of the surrounding area, I think it would be hours before they verified he wasn't in the area and they had to broaden their search. By the early afternoon Andy was likely leaving the state. Manhunts are slow. You establish some perceived parameter and then get people in lines walking all through it with dogs hoping to stumble upon the perp. It takes forever. Additionally the warden didn't have any reason to think Andy would head to a bank, because he didn't discover Andy had stolen his ledgers until after Andy's story hit the papers. Andy on the other hand had the following tasks that day. Sometime through the middle of the night he had to get cleaned up and walk to town. He had to go to a bank (presumably the closest one) to get cash. Then he would have likely bought the car, thus making it faster for him to hit all the other banks. Red says he visited nearly a dozen banks that morning. I guess either these banks were very close to each other and/or closing the accounts took less than 20 minutes on average per bank.

That is pretty fast, but Andy was a banker, and probably knew just what to say to expedite the process. Buxton, Maine is only 15 miles from Portland, Maine. It would have only taken Andy 30 minutes to drive there and maybe 30-60 minutes to plant the box for Red. From there Andy had to drive to Texas, which Google Maps estimates taking 36 hours on modern roads. In the 1960s it would have taken longer. Maybe 3-4 days. Because the police had no reason to suspect Andy had such vast resources, their initial search wouldn't have warranted a nationwide APB (if such a thing existed back then). By the time they figured out what had happened Andy was probably several states away, and was able to cross the border a couple of days later. up vote 3 down vote Hmm... I assumed that Andy goes to the banks on the first day and asks them to add the ledger to their outgoing mail on the first day. Mail usually doesn't get to its destination the same day. Perhaps it is the following day if it is nearby.

So it probably doesn't appear in the newspaper until the evening edition of the day after Andy escapes, or the morning edition two days later. (Remember, they show a newspaper after he escapes. So I would assume the newspapers detailing "corruption, murder at Shawshank" are 2-3 days after he escapes.) The police during that time probably had no reason to suspect that Andy has purchased a car and is a long ways away... And Warden Norton shot himself. We can assume that the police do not track the accounts of Randall Stevens until at least a day after that. Andy has at least a two day head start in his car, probably even longer... And in 1966 it certainly would have been much easier to pull off. We also do not know what level of detail is in the ledgers. If I were him, why would want it known the the deposits went to accounts held by Randall Stevens? Is it theoretically possible he could have left this information out? up vote 2 down vote Your question is based upon some false premises. First of all, as pointed out by others, the Warden doesn't know, until days later, that the ledgers and documentation have been switched out.

That includes the driver's license, birth certificate and social security card. There is no reason for anyone to suspect that Randall Stevens was suddenly walking around Maine. Given that, regarding Dufresne's lack of hiding his identity - why would anyone be looking for a just-escaped convict as someone dressed in an expensive business suit at local banks? With matching signature, the ease, confidence and polish of a businessman, people are not going to assume "this guy is a hardened convict posing" even if they heard of the escape. Why would he need advanced notice to close out the accounts? In the scene where he asks them to mail his package, his request is preceded by the bank teller saying, "Here is your cashier's check." He could easily withdraw small sums of cash from all of the banks, or hit the biggest bank first and take out enough to get a car and spending money to get to Mexico. Remember, this is the mid-1960s. Cash transactions for car purchases were much more common then because of the smaller amounts. A new car would set you back under $2000. A used one? Considerably less.

He could have taken $100 - $200 cash at each stop, and the rest as a bank draft with no eyebrows raised, and no need to insure cash reserves at any bank. He was able to not get caught because only he and the warden knew of the network of accounts, only he knew he stole all the needed documentation, at that time, and no one would expect a convict to do anything but run away. He had the element of surprise. up vote 0 down vote The warden could also have delayed reporting the disappearance because if the search revealed that Andy had died while trying to escape, or if he was captured during the search, then the warden and his men could hush-up the whole thing and nobody on the outside would even know that there was an attempted escape. A prison escape, or even a failed attempt at escape, under his watch is probably not any warden would like to have on his own re'sume' ! Only when it became very clear that Andy had indeed escaped would the warden report it to the outside authorities.

That might have taken a good 3 to 4 hours, perhaps even 6 to 8 hours and by that time, Andy would have been well on his way, and somewhere between Worcester, MA and Stamford, CT! At the very least, he would have been able to finish burying the letter at Buxton and departed from that place. ‘Shawshank’ prison escape ends 56 years later with cinematic stakeout - The Washington Post ‘Shawshank’ prison escape ends 56 years later with cinematic stakeout The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! By Michael E. Miller By Michael E. Miller May 6, 2015 Follow @MikeMillerDC For a week, U.S. marshals staked out the trailer park at the swampy edge of the world. They watched as an old man with a white ponytail, glasses and beard slowly shuffled around his Melbourne, Fla., mobile home.

The name on the mailbox said William Harold Cox, but the marshals knew better. After seven days of surveillance, they confronted Cox with a mug shot of a much younger man, dated Feb. 26, 1959. “He said he hadn’t seen that guy in a long time,” said Maj. Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, which assisted in the stakeout. “Then he admitted it and basically said, ‘You got me.'” As the marshals suspected, the old man was actually Frank Freshwaters, a felon on the lam for 56 years. His arrest on Monday brings to an end a half-century saga that reads like a Hollywood script, complete with a deadly crime, dramatic prison escape and a cunning trap to catch a wanted fugitive. The tale even includes a tie-in to the movie it already resembles: “The Shawshank Redemption.” [ How famed treasure hunter Tommy Thompson, ‘one of the smartest fugitives ever,’ was caught ] Freshwaters’s story is one of spurned second chances. Back in the summer of 1957, he was a 20-year-old kid with a full head of dark hair and a lead foot.

One night in July, he was speeding through Ohio when he hit and killed a pedestrian. Freshwaters was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison only to have the sentence suspended, according to the Associated Press . But Freshwaters squandered his good fortune. He violated probation by climbing back into the driver’s seat and was locked up in February 1959 in the Ohio State Reformatory. It would prove to be a fitting setting for Freshwaters. After its closing in 1990, the reformatory would be used as a set for “The Shawshank Redemption,” a 1994 movie about a wrongfully convicted man who escapes from prison. Freshwaters never escaped from the reformatory, however. Instead, he secured a transfer to a nearby “honor camp,” according to the AP . It was from there that Freshwaters disappeared on Sept. 30, 1959. [ Cold case killer’s attorney: ‘If he had not turned himself in, this would still be an unsolved crime’ ] The 22-year-old didn’t disappear without a trace, however.

In 1975, he was arrested in Charleston, W.Va., after allegedly threatening his ex-wife. He was found hiding under a sink in his house, the AP reported. At the time, investigators said Freshwaters had fled to Florida and obtained identification and a Social Security number under the alias William Harold Cox. Then he moved to West Virginia, where he drove a mobile library for the state government and worked as a trucker. But Freshwaters caught a second break. The governor of West Virginia refused to extradite him to Ohio. Freshwaters was freed from jail and disappeared once again. It now appears as if he made his way down to Florida, where he continued to live under his alias, even receiving Social Security checks. Back in Ohio, meanwhile, his file gathered dust until earlier this year, when a deputy marshal reopened the 56-year-old case. It wasn’t exactly hard to track down the aging criminal. A cursory search of public records shows a 78-year-old William H. Cox living on Jones Road just outside Melbourne. (Freshwaters is actually 79.) Marshals and deputies staked out the trailer park, surrounded by Palmetto trees.

To confirm his identity, they concocted a plan to obtain the old man’s fingerprints. Undercover agents persuaded Freshwaters to sign some forms, which were then tested for fingerprints. They matched the prints on record from 58 years earlier in Ohio. Finally, marshals confronted the old man with his mug shot from half a century earlier. Freshwaters looked nothing like the young man in the photo, but he didn’t fight hard to maintain his charade. Authorities took the senior citizen into custody. During a court appearance on Tuesday, a wheelchair-bound Freshwaters waived extradition, freeing the way for him to return to Ohio and finish the up-to-18 years remaining on his manslaughter sentence. Barring another escape, he could be as old as 97 upon his release. As far as second lives go, Freshwaters’s Florida hideout was no beachfront home in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, the location where the wrongfully convicted character Andy Dufresne settles down after escaping from Shawshank. But it was far better than an Ohio prison. “It’s a nice place to kind of hang out by yourself if you don’t want people to know you’re there,” Goodyear said.

Read more: Andy Dufresne (Character) - Biography biography The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Warning! This character biography may contain plot spoilers. Visit our Character Biography Help to learn more. Character Biography History Discuss Andy Dufresne (pronounced doo-FRAYN) served as vice president of a Portland, Maine bank before being erroneously convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, a golf pro, and was sentenced to two life terms. He was sent to Shawshank Prison in 1947. Dufresne was the frequent target of sexual abuse from a prison clique known as the Sisters. His sage financial advice earned him protection from prison guards. Dufresne used his considerable intelligence and education to improve the prison library, which he named after former inmate and librarian Brooks Hatlen, and helped a number of convicts earn their high school diplomas. He also used his banking knowledge to start a money laundering scheme on behalf of prison warden Samuel Norton.

In 1966 Dufresne attempted to win a new trial when fellow inmate Tommy Williams told the story of a former cellmate at another prison confessing to the murder of Dufresne's wife and lover. Warden Norton squashed Dufresne's hopes out of fear that Andy would inform authorities of the money laundering despite Andy's promise to remain silent. After spending two months in an area of the prison known as "the hole", during which time Williams was assassinated, Dufresne escaped from Shawshank. He took documental evidence of the laundering scheme with him, which he would later mail to a Portland newspaper. Using the alias Randall Stevens (the name under the illegal accounts) Dufresne visited a number of Portland-area banks, withdrawing approximately p$370,000, money Norton intended to retire with. Dufresne buried some money in a hayfield near Buxton, Maine, at a location only known to his prison friend Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, then fled to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, where he operated a hotel with charter fishing services for guests.

Dufresne was later joined by Redding after Red was paroled and discovered the money Andy left for him in the Buxton hayfield. He finally was reunited with his friend in Mexico. Page last updated by fearthebeast360 , 1 year ago In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they... - Movie Fanatic The Shawshank Redemption Cast In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they... [narrating] In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Red Next → Like Movies? Sign up for our daily newsletter and receive the latest movie news delivered to your inbox for free! Andy Dufresne: I understand you're a man who knows how to get things. Red: Yeah, I've been known to locate certain things from time to time.

Added: August 28, 2006 [narrating] In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Red The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Synopsis The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Warning! This synopsis may contain spoilers See plot summary for non-spoiler summarized description. Visit our Synopsis Help to learn more Synopsis In 1947, Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), a banker in Maine, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, a golf pro. Since the state of Maine has no death penalty, he is given two consecutive life sentences and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. Andy always claims his innocence, but his cold and measured demeanor led many to doubt his word.

During the first night, the chief guard, Byron Hadley ( Clancy Brown ), 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. Ellis Boyd Redding ( Morgan Freeman ), known as 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. 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. 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 is finished. Red remarks that Andy may have engineered the privilege to build favor with the prison guards as much as with his fellow inmates, but Red also thinks Andy did it simply to "feel free." While watching a movie, Andy demands "Rita Hayworth" from Red.

Soon after, Andy once more encounters the Sisters and is brutally beaten, putting him in the infirmary for a month. Boggs ( Mark Rolston ), the leader of the Sisters, spends a week in solitary for the beating. When he comes out, he finds Hadley and his men waiting in his cell. They beat him so badly he's left paralyzed, transferred to a prison hospital upstate, and the Sisters never bother Andy again. When Andy gets out of the infirmary, he finds a bunch of rocks and a poster of Rita Hayworth in his cell: presents from Red and his buddies. Warden Samuel Norton ( Bob Gunton ) hears about how Andy helped Hadley and uses a surprise cell inspection to size Andy up. The warden meets with Andy and sends him to work with aging inmate Brooks Hatlen ( James Whitmore ) in the prison library, where he sets up a make-shift desk to provide services to other guards (and the warden himself) with income tax returns and other financial advice. Andy sees an opportunity to expand the prison library; he starts by asking the Maine state senate for funds. He writes letters every week.

His financial support practice is so appreciated that even guards from other prisons, when they visit for inter-prison baseball matches, seek Andy's financial advice. Andy prepares Norton's tax returns the next season. 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," essentially conditioned to be a prisoner for the rest of his life and unable to adapt to the outside world. 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." After six years of writing letters, Andy receives $200 from the state for the library, along with a collection of old books and phonograph records. Though the state Senate thinks this will be enough to get Andy to halt his letter-writing campaign, he is undaunted and redoubles his efforts.

When the donations of old books and records arrive at the warden's office, Andy finds a copy of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro among the records. He locks the guard assigned to the warden's office in the bathroom and plays the record over the prison's PA system. The entire prison seems captivated by the music — Red remarks that the voices of the women in the intro made everyone feel free, if only for a brief time. Outside the office, Norton appears, furious at the act of defiance, and orders Andy to turn off the record player. Andy reaches for the needle arm at first, then turns the volume on the phonograph up. The warden orders Hadley to break into the office and Andy is sent immediately to solitary confinement for two weeks. When he gets out, he tells his friends that the stretch was the "easiest time" he ever did in the hole because he spent it thinking about Mozart's Figaro. When the other prisoners tell him how unlikely that is, he replies that hope can sustain them. Red is not convinced and leaves, bitter at the thought. With the enlarged library and more materials, Andy begins to teach those inmates who want to receive their high school diplomas.

After Andy is able to secure a steady stream of funding from various sources, the library is further renovated and named for Brooks. Warden Norton profits on Andy's knowledge of accounting and devises a scheme whereby he puts prison inmates to work in public projects which he wins by outbidding other contractors (prisoners are cheap labor). Occasionally, he lets others get some contracts if they bribe him. Andy launders money for the warden by setting up many accounts in different banks, along with several investments, using a fake identity: "Randall Stephens." He shares the details only with his friend, Red, noting that he had to "go to prison to learn how to be a criminal." In 1965, a young prisoner named Tommy ( Gil Bellows ) comes to Shawshank to serve time for armed robbery. Tommy is easy going, charismatic, and popular among the other inmates. Andy suggests that Tommy take up another line of work besides theft. The suggestion really gets to Tommy and he works on earning his high school equivalency diploma. Though Tommy is a good student, he is still frustrated when he takes the exam itself, crumpling it up and tossing it in the trash. Andy retrieves it and sends it in.

One day Red tells Tommy about Andy's case. Tommy is visibly upset at hearing Andy's story and tells Andy and Red that he had a cellmate in another prison who boasted about killing a man who was a pro golfer at the country club he worked at, along with his lover. The woman's husband, a banker, had gone to prison for those murders. With this new information, Andy, full of hope, meets with the warden, expecting North to help him get another trial with Tommy as a witness. The reaction from Norton is completely contrary to what Andy hoped for. When Andy says emphatically that he would never reveal the money laundering schemes he set up for Norton over the years, the warden becomes furious and orders him to solitary for a month. The warden later meets with Tommy alone and asks him if he'll testify on Andy's behalf. Tommy enthusiastically agrees and the warden has him shot dead by Hadley. When the warden visits Andy in solitary, he tells him that Tommy was killed while attempting escape. Andy tells Norton that the financial schemes will stop. The warden counters, saying the library will be destroyed and all its materials burned.

Andy will also lose his private cell and be sent to the block with the most hardened criminals. The warden gives Andy another month in solitary. Afterwards, Andy returns to the usual daily life at Shawshank, a seemingly broken man. One day he talks to Red, about how although he didn't kill his wife, his personality drove her away, which led to her infidelity and death. He says if he's ever freed or escapes, he'd like to go to Zihuatanejo, a beach town on the Pacific coast of Mexico. He also tells Red how he got engaged. He and his future wife went up to a farm in Buxton, Maine, to a large oak tree at the end of a stone wall. The two made love under the tree, after which he proposed to her. He tells Red that, if he should ever be paroled, he should look for that field, and that oak tree. There, under a large black volcanic rock that would look out of place, Andy has buried a box that he wants Red to have. Andy refuses to reveal what might be in that box. Later, Andy asks for a length of rope, leading Red and his buddies to suspect he will commit suicide.

At the end of the day, Norton asks Andy to shine his shoes for him and put his suit in for dry-cleaning before retiring for the night. The following morning, Andy is not accounted for as usual in his cell. At the same time, Norton becomes alarmed when he finds Andy's shoes in his shoebox instead of his own. He rushes to Andy's cell and demands an explanation. Hadley brings in Red, but Red insists he knows nothing of Andy's plans. Becoming increasing hostile and paranoid, Norton starts throwing Andy's sculpted rocks around the cell. When he throws one at Andy's poster of Raquel Welch (in the spot previously occupied by Marilyn Monroe, and before that by Rita Hayworth), the rock punches through and into the wall. Norton tears the poster away from the wall and finds a tunnel just wide enough for a man to crawl through. During the previous night's thunderstorm, Andy wore Norton's shoes to his cell, catching a lucky break when no one notices. He packed some papers and Norton's clothes into a plastic bag, tied it to himself with the rope he'd asked for, and escaped through his hole.

The tunnel he'd excavated led him to a space between two walls of the prison where he found a sewer main line. Using a rock, he hit the sewer line in time with the lightning strikes and eventually burst it. Crawling through 500 yards in the pipe and through the raw sewage contained in it, Andy emerged in a brook outside the walls. A search team later found his uniform and his rock hammer, which had been worn nearly to nothing. That morning, Andy walks into the Maine National Bank in Portland, where he had put Warden Norton's money. Using his assumed identity as Randall Stephens, and with all the necessary documentation, he closes the account and walks out with a cashier's check. Before he leaves, he asks them to drop a package in the mail. He continues his visitations to nearly a dozen other local banks, ending up with some $370,000. The package contains Warden Norton's account books, which are delivered straight to the Portland Daily Bugle newspaper. Not long after, the police storm Shawshank Prison.

Hadley is arrested for murder; Red says he was taken away "crying like a little girl." Warden Norton finally opens his safe, which he hadn't touched since Andy escaped, and instead of his books, he finds the Bible he had given Andy. Norton opens it to the book of Exodus and finds that the pages have been cut out in the shape of Andy's rock hammer. Norton walks back to his desk as the police pound on his door, takes out a small revolver and shoots himself under the chin. Red remarks that he wondered if the warden thought, right before pulling the trigger, how "Andy could ever have gotten the best of him." Shortly after, Red receives a postcard from Fort Hancock, Texas, with nothing written on it. Red takes it as a sign that Andy made it into Mexico to freedom. Red and his buddies kill time talking about Andy's exploits (with a lot of embellishments), but Red just misses his friend. At Red's next parole hearing in 1967, he talks to the parole board about how "rehabilitated" was a made-up word, and how he regretted his actions of the past of murder over 40 years ago and no longer expects anything from them.

His parole is granted this time. He goes to work at a grocery store, and stays at the same halfway house room Brooks had stayed in. He frequently walks by a pawn shop which has several guns and compasses in the window. At times he contemplates trying to get back into prison feeling that he has no life outside of prison where he has spent most of his adult life, but he remembers the promise he made to Andy. One day, with a compass he bought from the pawn shop, he follows Andy's instructions, hitchhiking to Buxton and arriving at the stone wall Andy described. Just as Andy said, there was a large black stone. Under it was a small box containing a large sum of cash and instructions to find him. He said he needed somebody "who could get things" for a "project" of his. Red violates parole and leaves the halfway house, unconcerned since no one is likely to do an extensive manhunt for "an old crook like [him]." He takes a bus to Fort Hancock, where he crosses into Mexico. The two friends are finally reunited on the beach of Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast.

Synopsis Frank Freshwaters caught after 56 years on the lam - CNN.com For 56 years, Frank Freshwaters was a free man -- though he shouldn't have been. But not anymore. The 79-year-old's life on the lam ended Monday when he was taken into custody at his Melbourne, Florida, mobile home. Freshwaters, who was living under the alias of William Harold Cox, is being held in the Brevard County Jail pending extradition to Ohio, said Maj. Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. The arrest ends a journey that took Freshwaters through numerous states, where he held various jobs and assumed multiple identities, according to authorities. It started in Ohio, where Freshwaters pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter charges stemming from a 1957 automobile accident. He initially got probation, only to be sentenced again in 1959 to up to 20 years at the Ohio State Reformatory after a parole violation.

Read More The Ohio State Reformatory may look familiar to moviegoers familiar with "The Shawshank Redemption." That 1994 film and the Stephen King novella that inspired it were set in Maine, but the movie was largely shot at the Ohio prison. In fact, people in Mansfield, Ohio, can take tours to see key locales from the movie -- like the prison warden's office, parole board room, "the yard" and the escape tunnel used by main character Andy Dufresne. Dufresne, as played by Tim Robbins, benefited from being a favorite of Shawshank's warden and prison guards. In that respect, his story resembles that of Freshwaters, who was "quickly able to earn the trust of the prison officials," according to Peter Elliott, the U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Ohio This trust helped to earn the Akron, Ohio, native a transfer to what's called an honor farm, Elliott said. Freshwaters escaped from that honor farm, not the prison. While it took Dufresne nearly 20 years to dig his way out of prison, Freshwaters managed to escape from custody after seven months. Authorities have not divulged details of how he did it.

CNN's attempts to reach family members of Freshwaters in the Akron area as well as those of William Harold Cox in Melbourne were not successful. Police: Freshwaters was rearrested in 1975 but released Freshwaters lived in several states after his escape and worked some as a truck driver, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said. His time on the run almost came to an end in 1975 when authorities in West Virginia's Kanawha County found him living under an assumed name and arrested him, having determined his real identity, on an Ohio warrant seeking Freshwaters' return. But he was released after West Virginia's governor declined to extradite him, the U.S. Marshals Service said. From what investigators can gather, the rationale to let Freshwaters go in West Virginia was that he'd been a good citizen during his time in the state, Elliott said. Still sought by Ohio authorities, Freshwaters went back into hiding, Elliott said. He is believed to have settled in Florida's Brevard County about 20 years ago, according to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. His arrest this week comes three months after the Marshals Service created a cold case unit in northern Ohio.

Ohio parole officials asked the unit to help find Freshwaters, and after some weeks of digging, the unit found information that led it to believe Freshwaters was living in Florida's Melbourne area. Elliott declined to specify what led to the discovery. He said these types of investigations typically check a fugitive's possible links to other people; he added that no one tipped investigators to Freshwaters' location. "It was just good police work," Elliott said. U.S. marshals in Florida joined the investigation and helped confirm that Freshwaters was there, leading to his arrest Monday, the service said. When investigators went to his mobile home to make the arrest, one of them showed Freshwaters a 1959 picture of the fugitive and asked him if he'd seen that person, Goodyear told News 13 of Orlando . Freshwaters "said he hadn't seen him in a long time," Goodyear said.

Question: What prison did Andy Dufresne escape from?
Answer: Shawshank