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Shawshank State Prison is a fictional New England state prison in the state of Maine. It serves as the primary location in the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, as well as the film adaptation. The prison has also been mentioned in several other works by King.
While this facility was seen in a number of films (including several while the facility was still in operation), TV shows and music videos, it was made famous by the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994) when it was used for most scenes of the movie. The Ohio State Reformatory is currently open to tourists.
Shawshank itself is crucial to the film. The prison is set in Maine, though they filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. The prison began construction in 1886 and was in use until 1990.
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover ...
The prison from ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ – Mansfield ... are there for “Shawshank.” It is open for tours where you can stroll the halls that Andy and Red walked, sit in their cells and ...
Thirty years after The Shawshank Redemption opened in U.S. theaters on Sept. 23, 1994, director Frank Darabont revealed the lengths Tim Robbins went to in portraying the film’s hero.. In a ...
Prison scenes in the 2013 film Out of the Furnace were filmed on site at the penitentiary. [19] The prison was the site for MTV's paranormal reality television series Fear in Season 1 Episode 1. [20] The Hulu original series, Castle Rock, based on Stephen King's work, was filmed here. In the series, the penitentiary stands in as Shawshank State ...
No. 10: 'Shawshank' lumber lawsuit Some of the lumber that was left from the iconic oak tree featured in "The Shawshank Redemption" remains at the center of a civil suit.