Through the Sewage and Into the Rain

In The Shawshank Redemption, there is a scene that has lodged itself permanently into the imagination of moviegoers. Andy Dufresne — wrongly convicted, stripped of everything — spends nearly two decades in Shawshank Prison before the moment arrives. He crawls on his hands and knees through five hundred yards of sewage pipe, inch by filthy inch, until he bursts through the other end into a stream below.…