The Shawshank Redemption
Drama · Crime
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Film / 1968
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Directed by
Lindsay Anderson
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
The story
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Cast
Malcolm McDowellMick Travis
David WoodJohnny Knightly
Richard WarwickWallace
Christine NoonanThe Girl
Rupert WebsterBobby Phillips
Robert SwannRowntree
Hugh ThomasDenson
Michael CadmanFortinbras
Peter SprouleBarnes
Peter JeffreyHeadmaster
Anthony NichollsGeneral Denson
Arthur LoweMr. Kemp
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Mona WashbourneMatron
Mary MacLeodMrs. Kemp
Geoffrey ChaterChaplain
Ben ArisJohn Thomas
Graham CrowdenHistory Master
Charles Lloyd PackClassics Master
Guy RossStephens
Robin AskwithKeating
Richard EverettPussy Graves
Philip BagenalPeanuts
Nicholas PageCox
Robert YetzesFisher
David GriffinWillens
Graham SharmanVan Eyssen
Richard TomblesonBaird
Robin DaviesMachin
Brian PettiferBiles
Michael NewportBrunning
Charles SturridgeMarkland
Sean BuryJute
Martin BeaumontHunter
Ellis DaleMotorcycle Salesman (uncredited)
John GarrieMusic Master (uncredited)
Tommy GodfreySchool Porter (uncredited)
Peter JaquesSchoolmaster (uncredited)
Simon WardSchoolboy (uncredited)
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