“The Shawshank Redemption”’s Triumphant Escape Scene Found Tim Robbins Filming in a Creek Filled with Real Cow Poop
When it came to filming Andy’s triumphant escape from Shawshank, however, Robbins came a lot closer to his character’s experience. The sequence saw the character crawling through a sewage pipe, and in the film’s narration, Freeman’s character recounts how Andy “crawled through a river of s--- and came out clean on the other side clean.”