He threatens, as a repressive, dictatorial ruler, to abuse his power, to be rude, obnoxious, irresponsible, insulting, cynical, and power-mad, ruining the country.The sun sets.On the third day, when other man-apes come over to he water hole, the intelligent, carnivorous man-apes dominate and drive the weaponless (and tool-less) neighboring creatures away with heir newfound strike power - this is humanity""s first bloody war.He asserts to Lon:Hud: "It was the best hing.He was wore out and he knew it....Tryin"" to get up, hurtin"" himself.He couldn""t have made it.Lonnie, any way in this world, he couldn""t have made it another hour....You don""t know the whole story.Yeah, him and me fought many and many a round together.But I guess you could say that I helped him about as much as he ever helped me."Lon: (questioning Hud""s sincerity and complicity) "How did you help him, Hud? By tryin"" to sell him out? By takin"" the heart out of him? By makin"" him give up and quit? Is that how you helped him?"In the final scene, Lon walks off from he ranch in disgust as he speaks to Hud driving next to him in his car, and decides not to follow his ways: "I""m goin"" somewhere else and work for awhile if I can happen onto a job.Before it, other war films in the silent era had done very well: King Vidor""sThe Big Parade (1925), Raoul Walsh""sWhat Price Glory? (1926), and William Wellman""sWings (1927).