Jason punched a fire alarm button, as the blaze soon spread throughout he ship.McCulloch didn""t believe that the fire alarm was authentic, arguing that the deckhand had set it off only to cause panic- he pursued him with a flare gun." Impoverished, he has spent all of Joe""s money and is basically broke himself.Joe offers him some "free medical advice" for his hacking tubercular cough while referring to his night with O""Daniel: "You just keep your damn mouth shut about that night.He proudly displays a sign on the cage: "POLICE DOG FOR SALE." BackgroundHud(1963) is the story of the title character - a young Texas rancher named Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), the son of moral patriarch, law-abiding cattleman Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) in modern day Texas.The boundary-pushing film, with themes of corruption, sexual ambiguity and false dreams, was adapted from the grim 1966 Tony-winning Broadway stage production, which was in turn inspired by gay author Christopher Isherwood""s 1945Berlin Stories(including 1939""s short storyGoodbye to Berlin) and John Van Druten""s 1951 play and movieI Am a Camera (1955, UK)."Henry""s family of seven living in a "tiny house" is composed of his wheel-chair bound brother Michael (Kevin Corrigan), his Irish construction worker father (Beau Starr), his Sicilian mother (Elaine Kagan), two sisters, and another brother.