Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, one of four stories in Stephen Kings classic novel Different Seasons. Andy Dufresne, a banker from Maine, is accused for the double murder of his unfaithful wife and her lover. He is tried and arrested for double murder and sent to Shawshank for life. When he arrives at the prison, he meets Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate who specializes in gathering things from the outside for inmates. Andy asks Red for a rock hammer because he likes rocks. While in his cell, Andy begins to make chess pieces with it. Andy later asks Red for Rita Hayworth. Red eventually gives him a tube with a Rita Hayworth poster in it and later on Raquel Welch and Marilyn Monroe. Andy has a job in the prison laundry, but is regularly assaulted by the "bull queer" and "the sisters" while there.
Another beating from the "bull queer and the sisters" brings Andy close to death. Officer Hadley then beats Bogs badly enough to be sent to another prison. In 1949, Andy Dufresne overhears the chief guard Byron Hadley complaining about taxes. Warden Samuel Norton then moves Andy to the prison library because of his knowledge in banking where he begins to write letters to the state Government for additional funds to build a bigger library. In 1965, Tommy Williams arrives at Shawshank. Tommy needs to pass his General Educational Examinations. Andy helps prepare him for the exam. In 1966, Tommy hears the details of how Andy got into this prison. Tommy reveals that an inmate at another prison had admitted to an identical murder, possibly showing Andy's innocence. Andy goes to Norton with this new information about his case, but the Warden refused to listen and places him in solitary confinement. After Andy is released form confinement and talks to Red about his dreams. The next day at roll call, when they find Dufresne's jail cell empty, Norton takes a chess piece Andy had made and threw it at the Raquel Welch poster hanging on the wall. The piece goes straight through and reveals a tunnel that Andy had dug over the past two decades with his rock hammer which he hid in his bible.
Another beating from the "bull queer and the sisters" brings Andy close to death. Officer Hadley then beats Bogs badly enough to be sent to another prison. In 1949, Andy Dufresne overhears the chief guard Byron Hadley complaining about taxes. Warden Samuel Norton then moves Andy to the prison library because of his knowledge in banking where he begins to write letters to the state Government for additional funds to build a bigger library. In 1965, Tommy Williams arrives at Shawshank. Tommy needs to pass his General Educational Examinations. Andy helps prepare him for the exam. In 1966, Tommy hears the details of how Andy got into this prison. Tommy reveals that an inmate at another prison had admitted to an identical murder, possibly showing Andy's innocence. Andy goes to Norton with this new information about his case, but the Warden refused to listen and places him in solitary confinement. After Andy is released form confinement and talks to Red about his dreams. The next day at roll call, when they find Dufresne's jail cell empty, Norton takes a chess piece Andy had made and threw it at the Raquel Welch poster hanging on the wall. The piece goes straight through and reveals a tunnel that Andy had dug over the past two decades with his rock hammer which he hid in his bible.