Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemptioon
found dead in the courtyard shortly after his release.
· Red and his friends did not give a sack of rocks as a present to Andy in the
novel.
· Red was paroled after only thirty-eight years instead of forty.
· The postcard received from where Andy crossed the United StatesMexico
border was not from Fort Hancock, Texas but from another town in the
state named "McNary".
· The prison yard is never asphalted in the movie.
· Every year in Shawshank, Andy buys a bottle of Jack Daniels before his
birthday and Christmas. He drinks a few shots and gives it back to Red to
pass it around the other inmates. In the movie Andy says he "gave up
drinking."
· Andy did not steal warden Norton's shoes and clothes in the novel, nor did
he ask Heywood for a line of rope.