Hud

Okay, thanks for the lift.

Where you going to look for him?

I don't know, but if I find a pink Cadillac,

he'll be around somewhere.

So long.

Who's that?

It's Lon.

Hi, Lonnie. I'm making chili.

But if you want breakfast, I'll come out.

No, thanks.

Daisy, you seen my Uncle Hud?

I chicken-fried him

a steak last night, about 7:00.

Haven't seen him since.

All right.

Daisy, I'm taking two doughnuts.

Okay, honey.

Just leave a dime on the counter.

All right.

It's 26 after 6:00

on a Thursday, and 71 degrees in the good ol' summertime.

On the Bobby Don Brewer Show.

Must have had quite a brawl in here last night.

I had Hud in here last night is what I had.

Sure looks it.

Mr. Larker!

Hey, there, Mr. Larker!

Hey, there, Lon!

You gonna rodeo this year, Lon?

Not me. I ain't looking to get my stomach stepped on.

What you doing in town this early?

Trying to run down Hud.

Hud? Didn't I see that big Cadillac car of his

parked right down the street?

Pretty sure I did.

I don't know if I'd go

disturbing him, if I was you.

Well, I ain't dying to, but I've been told to get him.

Hud?

Hud?

Honcho...

I just hope for your sake that this house is on fire.

Well, I'm sorry to roust you out, Hud,

but we got trouble at the ranch.

Well, you've got trouble right here, bub.

I was just getting nicely tucked in.

You come tiptoeing through the tulips.

Granddad wants you, and he said right now.

Oh, he said, "right now"?

Well, do you think maybe

it would be all right with my old daddy

if I stopped to button up my shirt?

Oh, come on, will you, Hud?

You got me out of the wrong side of bed this morning.

Don't go snapping at my heels.

Just liable to turn around and bite you.

Hud?

Thank you, honey.

Hey. Hi, Joe.

Which one of you two

is coming out of my house at 6:00 in the morning?

I asked you a question. Which one, damn it?

Well, I hate to have to tell you,

seeing it's my own nephew,

but it's this snot-nosed kid here.

Been lookin' for him all night.

Just flushed him out a couple of minutes ago.

- I'll kill the little punk. - Oh, now, Joe...

- Just let me at that kid. - Wait a minute.

- I'll kill him, I'll kill him. - Now Joe, you know

you got sugar diabetes. Just take it easy.

I'll handle this thing for you.

I don't need any help from you.

I can do it myself. Now, you get out of my way.

Now, Joe, you can't afford to get worked-up, buddy boy.

I ain't gonna let that kid get away...

I'll lower his temperature some, I promise you.

All right, hotshot.

You and I are gonna finish this little discussion

behind the woodshed.

Thank you. Thanks a whole lot.

Relax.

Be able to charge a stud fee

by the time that story gets around town.

Yeah, if I'm still alive.

I could have gotten hurt back there, you know that?

So could I.

Ain't it lucky you were handy?

Well, maybe you ought to take me along as a regular thing.

The pace would kill you, sonny.

And now that the dust has settled,

what's so red-hot important

that my daddy has to drag me back on my day off?

Wants to ask your advice about something.

Ask me?

He hasn't asked me about anything in 15 years.

Just work out there from the shoulders down, myself.

You gonna be able to make it all day,

after a night like you put in?

At a hundred years old like him,

I don't need a week's sleep to be fresh.

He can't help being an old man, Hud.

Boy, you sure do drive this thing, don't you?

That'll be Hud.

He's parked right in my flower bed.

Good morning, Hud.

Morning.

I'm sorry to cut into your time off.

Lonnie, close that screen door.

We're getting a lot of flies in here.

Well, I see the house is still standing,

and you're pouring coffee in your saucer, as usual.

How come you pushed the panic button on me?

We come up with a dead heifer in the night.

Is that what you dragged me back here for? A dead cow?

I'm kinda worried about this one.

She wasn't cut or crippled-looking.

No swellin' on her.

Was there any Johnson grass or milkweed around?

Nothing. This may be something I ought to know about.

Jose and Jesse are out there now, keeping off the buzzards.

Lon, stay out of those berries.

They're going in the pie.

Well, let's not stand around here till dinnertime.

I got other things to do today.

Watch that cigarette ash.

It's going in the pot.

I'll go bring the pickup around.

How come you're always

running your car over my zinnias?

I've been trying to get

those things to come up for two weeks.

Don't plant 'em where I park.

You're cheerful this morning.

Missy, your job is to keep house,

not worry about my disposition.

Frying pan's still on.

Want a couple of eggs?

Or did you have breakfast in bed?

Nope. I didn't quite get around to breakfast.

Morning, boys.

Mr. Bannon.

Morning, Mr. Bannon.

Pretty hard to keep them birds away.

Had to use a flashlight most of the night.

Ah, look at them buzzards.

They'll be back.

You couldn't scare 'em off with artillery.

I wish you wouldn't do that, Hud.

They keep the country clean.

Besides, there's a law against killing buzzards.

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted

in a lenient manner.

And that's what I try to do.

Sometimes I lean to one side of it.

Sometimes I lean to the other.

I don't like to break the law

on my place, Hud.

Well, she ain't gonna sit up and tell us herself.

Well, what do you think, Hud?

I don't know.

She looks clean to me.

Well, something killed her.

I think I'll call up the state vet.

He might know.

Well, what for?

This is our land.

I don't want any government men on it--

any time, any place, anywhere.

This ain't nothing.

Just leave her lay. Let the buzzards have her.

No, I don't believe I will.

Before I go to bed, I'll call the government man

and ask him to come out and take a look at her.

Yeah, that's the stuff.

Bring some jellybean in here

to tell you how to run your own business.

Only don't ask me what I think from now on.

I'd like for you and Lon to stay out here for a while.

I'll take these boys back with me

so they can snooze a little.

Lon, you take that water bag so you won't parch.

Honcho, why don't you sit up with our sick friend here?

I got a healthy one in town that won't wait.

Hyah!

Come on, hyah.

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Boy, it's a good thing you showed up.

We blew a tire on the pickup,

and I got to get this stuff back for dinner.

Need any help, there, Jesse?

I'm all right, Hud. Thanks.

You think your hand would fall off

if you opened the door?

You pick up my beer?

Two six-packs.

That ought to see you till tomorrow.

Keeping count on me?

I keep tripping over those empties,