It would take many decades for the film to be hailed as one of the best ever made.Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck).The camp inhabitants are building one link in the infamous Bangkok-Rangoon "death railway."A newly arrived regiment of defeated British POWs is marched into the camp from the Southeast Asian Burmese/Siamese jungle - it is 1943.At the same time, Shingen had revived from he pool and donned a traditional armored samurai outfit - he had also equipped himself with a sword.He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn""t normal around here.He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world.Like he had on an invisible coat hat would shield him from this place.Yeah, I think it would be fair to say I liked Andy from the start.Andy""s request is smuggled into the prison through a load of laundry at the loading dock, passed to Red in his new stack of clean sheets and blankets, and then distributed to Andy through Brooks, the prison librarian delivering books to each cell.Lenny made off with his grateful Uncle, who complimented him: "I""ve always considered you the Dutch Elm disease of my family tree.