Greatest Movie Scenes #59 - ODD MAN OUT

Boy, have we got a great movie scene for you today although I will admit it does work better in the context of the film Odd Man Out than it does on it's own but it's still great and really deserves it's place on this list. First a little build up to this scene. James Mason plays a IRA terrorist who has been shot whilst carrying out a bank robbery and is left as the odd man out when his co-thiefs leave him. The film shows Mason as he struggles to survive walking the streets of Belfast mortally wounded, whilst he bumps into ordinary members of the public who all want to help him until they recognize who he is and then they want nothing to do with him. They then all want him for their own personal gain. One of which is a rather mad painter, who is unhappy with the art he produces as he so desperately wants to paint a guy on the verge of death. What does a man see when he is dying? What does he look like? That's the image he wants, and the countless paintings of dead people aren't enough for him because he just can't capture that special moment. Until Mason comes along and now is his chance. This scene shows him at what we think is 'the moment of dying' as the past paintings, the ghosts of the people already dead come and haunt him. Throughout the film Johnny is being judged, but not quite as much as he is now by the ghosts and the priests and his great speech about the charity that has been rejected to him is conveyed in this great quote... What was that you used to tell us? "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."'