What year did Red go to Shawshank?
Plot. In 1947, Portland, Maine banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the Shawshank State Prison.
It's 1975 by the time he makes his escape, and 1977 when Red is paroled and prepares to reunite with Andy.
Red, the narrator, recounts how he planned and carried out his wife's murder by disabling her brakes, which accidentally killed a neighbor and child as well and earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison.
However, since the movie never mentions his age, it is necessary to refer to the novella, in which Red claims that convicted murderer Andy Dufresne is thirty when he first arrives at Shawshank, making him forty-nine years old when he escapes.
5/10 Red - 13 to 14 Years
Red was arrested for participating in organized crime, in part because her husband was inept. Her sentence was a long one, thirteen to fourteen years on the inside.
The Shawshank Redemption isn't based on a true story, and Frank Darabont didn't come up with it by himself, either. The movie's based on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, a novella first published in Stephen King's Different Seasons.
However, someone convicted of murder will always receive a life sentence. This doesn't necessarily mean that they will spend the rest of their life in prison. Depending on how serious the crime was, the offender will be forced to spend many years in jail before they are allowed to apply for parole.
5) The book mentions that Andy smuggled $100 into Shawshank via his, yet to be tapped, rectum; which is how he pays Red the $10 for the rock hammer.
In March 1977, Red is paroled. He finds a letter wrapped in plastic addressed to him from "Peter Stevens" inviting him to join Andy in Mexico and $1,000 in cash. The story ends with Red preparing to break his parole and follow Andy to Mexico.
Andy Dufresne's Escape
In 1966, Andy escaped from Shawshank Prison. He had spent 19 years tunneling through the wall of his cell with his Rock Hammer, his hole covered by his poster of Rita Hayworth.
Why do they call him Red in Shawshank?
During the movie, Andy (Tim Robbins) asks Red (Morgan Freeman) why he's called Red. Red retorts "Maybe it's because I'm Irish". This was an in-joke as in the novel by Stephen King, Red was a red haired Irishman.
Andy meets up with Red during free time in the exercise yard and they both sit in the shade alongside a wall. Andy tells Red of the guilt he has been keeping in over the decades, insistent that he loved his wife, but didn't know how to show it properly, therefore driving her away and eventually causing her murder.
It's revealed that Redding was sent to Shawshank after carefully planning the murder of his wife, who had come into possession of a hefty life insurance plan. To do so, he attempted to stage an accident by cutting the brake cables on her car, killing her in the process.