Best scene in a movie? For Morgan Freeman it is!

In the 2005 Oscar winner Clint Eastwood’s film Million Dollar Baby, the American actor Morgan Freeman can boast of having participated in writing several pages of cinema history.

Cast in many and often unforgettable roles, his long career includes such famous characters as Red in The Runaways, Detective Somerset in Seven, Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight Trilogy, Miss Daisy’s Driver and Nelson Mandela in Invictus.

But when he crosses the screen and takes a seat in the audience, what actors and scenes inspire him?

In 2014, around the release of The Incredible Story of Winter the Dauphin 2, we asked him what was the most amazing movie sequence for him. The man who played Ned Logan in Clint Eastwood’s Relentless then told us about a completely different western:

“Have you ever seen The Train Will Whistle three times?”he asked us.

“At the end of the movie, All the evil ones were defeated and People come out of hiding in the city. Because no one came to help the sheriff… he was the marshal and the bad guys came to kill him and he managed to fight them off. After all, a lot of people are coming out of their holes. He turns and sees them. He removes his sheriff star. He throws it in the dust, turns on his heels and leaves. That scene is always in me.”

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Directed by Fred Zinemann and starring Gary Cooper in 1952, The Train Will Whistle Three Times, which has the distinction of taking place in real time, follows the adventures of Sheriff Will Kane, who has just married and is about to leave. The city he presided over with his young wife.

But when one of his old enemies reappears with three accomplices, he chooses to stay in the fight against them, inviting other citizens to join him without receiving any support.

After fighting (and winning) with the help of his wife, he left, throwing away his badge, irritated by the cowardice of his fellow citizens. Considered one of the greatest Westerns of its time, this last sequence of Fred Zinnemann’s film still resonates in the history of cinema and in the memories of Morgan Freeman’s audience.

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