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** Bob Gunton, who played Warden Norton, is by all accounts a quite laid-back and chilled out guy (and for real, not in the evil or fake kind of way).
* [[Throw It In]]: Tim Robbins ad-libbed Andy Dufresne turning up the volume on the speaker in defiance of Norton telling him to turn it off.
* [[Trope Namer]]: For [[Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook]]. The trope-naming example is done for reasons the audience can sympathize with. Andy is secretly planning to escape from prison and [[Framing the Guilty Party|"expose" the warden]] [[Pulling the Thread|as a crook.]] The warden would have him break the law anyway. He says he never broke the law before going to jail, and we see nothing to contradict him.
* [[Vindicated by Cable]]: Back in 1994, it earned just over $28 million at the US box office; it has since enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television and home video. Ted Turner loved this movie so much, he made sure it was playing on at least one of his cable networks every weekend for about a decade, which helped the film earn back its budget and give it the mainstream recognition it never received while in theaters. You can still find it on [[TBS]] or a similar channel, even
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Tom Hanks]] turned down the role of Andy Dufresne.▼
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** As did [[Kevin Costner]], in order to make ''[[Waterworld]]''. Needless to say, he regrets it.
** [[Johnny Depp]], [[Tom Cruise]], [[Nicolas Cage]], and [[Charlie Sheen]] were all considered to play Andy as well.
** The role of Tommy Williams was intended for [[Brad Pitt]].
** [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Harrison Ford]], Paul Newman, and [[Robert Redford]] were all considered to play Red.
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