There have been
prison breakout movies before, from Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937), to Jacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), to John Sturges» The Great Escape (1963), to Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat (1974), to Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and even the current Chicken Run, but none like this.
: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved
movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the
prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho
prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best
movies ever made.