The top mistakes in The Shawshank Redemption http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1146 en Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:55:08 +0000 6980 When the warden comes into the cell the morning after the escape, the poster covering the hole is fastened down on all four corners - impossible to do after squeezing into that small hole. <em>[On the DVD commentary, the director confirms that this was a movie "cheat".]</em> 6975 When the warden offers Tommy a Marlboro, the pack has Marlboro Miles on the side. Not in 1965 or '66. 42150 In the part of the movie where Andy is playing the opera music, the whole prison stops what they're doing and stares at the speakers. When they show the infirmary, an African American man gets out of bed and looks out of the window. When the camera goes to the prison yard it pans around and goes right across the same African American man, who is now standing in the yard. 32571 Chess is played with a white square at the right end of the first row. You see the chess board with the stone figures in Andy's cell, and every time there is a black square on the right. Andy would have known better. 6983 At the end of the film following Andy's escape from Shawshank there is a scene of him driving along the cliff edge in a red car. This car is a red Pontiac GTO from 1969. The year in the film is 1966, 3 years before the car was made. Confirmed in commentary.