It has been 30 years since the Shawshank Redemption first came out in the fall of 1994.

We're celebrating that

the anniversary, we discuss the Stephen King short story Rita Hayworth

and the Shawshang Redemption

that the movie is based on, and then the movie itself,

one of our original book nerd movie hours.

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Until then, enjoy the show.

We'll see you in Ziwatinejo. Oh boy Rebecca we're back for another

edition of Book Nerd movie hour or two hours or three hours I don't know how long we're going to go.

Well I'm here for you know the life sentence on the formidable

estimable durable the Shawshank Redemption, written and directed by Frank Daribaut

based on a Stephen King Novella, short novel, that appeared first in different seasons in I think

1982 is when it first came out, which also produced the short story that became Stand

by Me, Stand by Me, which became Rob Reiner's big hit, which launched his career.

Rob Reiner named his production company Castle Rock Entertainment in homage to Stephen King,

since Stephen King's fictional town is Castle Rock, Maine.

So a whole lot came out of this very interesting

Novella collection in New York.

And also the short story that the apt pupil. interesting no

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