Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Shawshank Redemption

1. When Andy is making his escape, he crawls through a sewer tunnel filled with grotesque effluvia. The sludge was actually a mixture of chocolate syrup, sawdust and water, and even decades later the pipes still smell like cocoa.
2. The scene where Andy first approaches Red about the rock hammer as Red plays catch in the main yard took nine hours to shoot.
3. Morgan Freeman’s son, Alfonso Freeman, has two notable cameos in the film.
4. The interior shots of Shawshank State Prison were taken on a set built from scratch.
5. In the original novella, Red is described as a middle-aged Irishman.