What is an old movie of a man who fell between two walls while trying to escape prison?

Answer 1

In The Shawshank Redemption (R) 1994, Andy Dufresne was a banker who was supposedly wrongly accused of killing his wife and her lover. He was sentenced to a very nasty prison, set around the 1920s-1930s in the south. Because of his accounting skills, the warden makes Andy the warden's assistant. Each day, Andy "cooks the books" for the Warden's crooked enterprises, with one book showing the doctored figures, and a second book showing how much money the Warden was stealing.

But after many run-ins with the Warden, the intelligent but soft-spoken prisoner decided he would escape. He planned this for likely a year or more. He dug a large hole through the wall of his cell, covered by a poster. The hole dropped him between the walls behind 2 rows of cells. Note: He did not "fall". It was part of the escape.

The night he left, a thunderstorm started. With each crack of lightning and thunder, Andy beat a sewer pipe with a rock (covering the sound he was making). He then crawled I think 1/2 mile through sewer water and feces to a stream outside the prison wire.

During his planning, Andy redirected the Warden's stolen money into savings accounts in the city under a fictitious name and requested a birth certificate with a fake name. So after he escaped, he went to each bank to get the money. He also mailed documents to the authorities about the Warden.

Andy then goes South. Police arrive at the prison to arrest the Warden-----but.... he's a coward and kills himself. His top guards are arrested.