But a good guy don""t pay no attention to what some heel makes him stick on his truck.Driver: Well, scrunch down on the running board ""til we get around he bend.Laconic Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is hitchhiking on his way home to his family""s sharecropping farm - he is out on early parole after serving a short prison term for homicide.Red Riverwas Howard Hawks"" first western, a story often compared o its parallel epic on the high seas,Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).Luke is detached toward police when they arrive at the scene and arrest him for social defiance - under a streetlight""s glare, he laughs at them with a big grin.Bill: (to Tom) If you say what you""re thinking, I""ll strangle you!After being reunited with his weakling, embarrassing son by a handshake, Bill Sr.