Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Resources

Stephen King has his own homepage, as befits a kajillionaire bestselling author. It includes a rather disappointing section on Shawshank.

There's only been one movie adaptation of Shawshank, and considering how great it is, there probably only will be. Morgan Freeman plays Red, Tim Robbins plays Andy, and while it takes a few minor liberties with the story, they're all in keeping with King's original prose. People consider it the best adaptation of a Stephen King work ever… and more than that. IMDB viewers list it as one of the greatest movies of all time, (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?tt0111161&ref_=tt_awd) up there with the likes of Schindler's List and The Godfather. Yowza.

Shawshank the book has been kind of overshadowed by Shawshank the movie. Case in point: Roger Ebert's beautiful review of the film.

The Times reviews Different Seasons, including Shawshank.

Here's the scene of Andy's escape from the 1994 movie. It's a fantastic sequence; we tear up a little bit every time we see it.

Charlie Rose interviews Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins and director Frank Darabont about the movie version of Shawshank.

Shawshank is still copyrighted, which means you gotta pay to get an audio version of it. Barnes and Noble has a brief sample on their website, for your listening pleasure.

Here's an image of Rita Hayworth as King described her: "Rita is dressed-sort of-in a bathing suit, one hand behind her head, her eyes half closed, those full, sulky red lips parted." (126) The movie uses a different image, but this is the one that matches the description.

Linda's the lucky girl whose photo covers Andy's escape from the prison. We couldn't find the exact image King described – "Linda was looking back over her shoulder, her hands tucked into the back pockets of a very tight pair of fawn-colored slacks." (426)—which we suspect may be a bit of artistic license on his part. This pic gets pretty close, though.

Here's the famous shot of Marilyn, "that picture from The Seven Year Itch where she's standing over a subway grating and the warm air is flipping her skirt up." (221) She doesn't play as large a role in the story as Rita and Linda do, but she certainly looks good.