Maggie remembered her instructions: "Get inside his brain" and literally walked into the poster image...the expensive kind" with the unbeatable acknowledged master "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason), advises Charlie (derisively labeling him as Eddie""s "manager, his friend, his stooge") to forget about winning: "Take your boy and go home...You""re just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what""s right and wrong.The earthy, warm-hearted housekeeper Alma Brown (Patricia Neal) is almost raped one night when Hud is uncontrollably drunk.He refused to fight back when taunted.The brawl was broken up when his father appeared, and he was given a helping hand by Pete Ross.Jonathan offered solid advice to young Clark: "You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark.