The Lusty Men
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- Year:
- 1952
- 113 min
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One of the most thrilling
and surely one of the most
dangerous rodeo events--
cowboys riding
the wild brahma bulls.
Unlike the bucking horse
used in rodeos
who will try to prevent
stepping on or kicking a rider,
the brahma bull will
purposely stomp a contestant
with his sharp hoofs
or rip the rider with his horns,
oftentimes causing
fatal injuries.
are well-known for
their mean dispositions
and are particularly treacherous
because they're
the only type bull
that will charge a man
with their eyes open.
That's why you'll
never see a brahma bull
in the ring with a matador.
one of the all-time greats,
Jeff McCloud, Bandera, Texas.
Jeff's coming out
on a bull called razor,
'cause he's given
a lot of cowboys
a close shave.
Contestants ride the bull
holding onto a loose rope,
sometimes called a bullrope,
the other hand free in the air.
Should the cowboy touch
the bull with his free hand
anytime during
his eight-second ride,
he will be disqualified.
Keep your eyes
Take him out!
Thanks to the alertness
of our rodeo clowns.
He may be shaken up a bit,
but he's walked away from
tougher spills than this.
Now take a look
Shorty west
from blackton, Idaho,
Shorty must have bought
a one-way ticket.
All right, you under there,
back out nice and slow.
What are you doing
crawling around under my house?
I didn't think
nobody lived here.
Somebody lives here.
What are you doing
crawling under there?
I was looking for something
I thought I'd lost.
I used to save my money
in this tobacco can
when I was a kid
With my 2 nickels
in it after 20 years.
2 nickels was a load
of money to me then.
You Connie McCloud's boy?
I'm Jeff McCloud.
I'm Jeremiah watrus.
Howdy.
There's some coffee
in the house.
Come on in and sit.
- Did you know my old man?
- Not personal.
Well, the place
ain't changed much.
I bought it at a tax auction.
Got it at my own price.
Now I know why.
Could have had more fun throwing my money
out the window.
It ain't changed much
in here, either.
- Wash up if you've a mind to.
- I washed this morning.
I was born in this room.
That ain't much to brag about.
Where you from these days?
Oh, I move around a lot.
I can't get over it.
In 20 years,
you'd think it'd change.
But there's been changes.
Sun's got a little hotter,
a little more
earth's blowed away,
a little less water.
That's about all the changes.
What made you come back?
I don't know.
I'd make enough money
to settle down
on the old place, run a few head.
- You got the money?
- I had it... Once.
- What happened?
- I got kind of sidetracked.
Women?
No. No, women
don't sidetrack me.
Something else.
I'll be 62 come march.
Maybe if I was married,
I might fix the place,
or if I had kids.
It is kind of lonely.
I like a place
that's lonely, private.
You been married?
I figure it this way...
Marriage, it's lonely,
but it ain't private.
You got anything you own?
What I started out with,
a strong back and a weak mind.
A shack, some rocky ground,
a spavined horse,
and a busted windmill...
That's all I got.
That's still more than me.
Yeah, but you ain't 62 yet.
You a thinking man?
Oh, I can get in
out of the rain,
that's about all.
Me, I'm a thinking man.
This is what I think.
One of the things that's wrong
is that all the books
and rules on success
is written by successful men.
That's wrong. Fellas like you and me'd
get a lot more help
if those books was written by failures.
That would make sense.
That cowhand from
the jackhammer ranch,
him and his wife play games.
Is that bad?
Reckon today they'll
want to remodel this kitchen.
About the only thing
around here they ain't fixed over.
In their mind's eye, of course.
Come prowling around
with calf eyes,
saying
how much they'd like to buy the place.
You don't need
no urging to sell, do you?
Moon talk.
Where's a ranch hand
going to get $5,000?
Well, I'll be getting on.
Figure to make
abilene by sundown.
Set still.
Sometimes they're right amusing.
No. I better
hit the road.
Kind of disappointing, I guess.
Man coming back
to his home place,
find it like this.
Kind of like
visiting a graveyard.
Yeah, something like that.
Well, good luck.
I hope we didn't
interrupt nothing.
Fella was born here.
Wanted to see
how the place looked after 20-odd years.
Scared us. Thought
maybe he was a buyer.
Him?
Them McClouds
is the most shiftless family
ever hit these parts.
He couldn't buy nothing.
McCloud!
That's who that is!
Jeff McCloud!
You know him?
Leave him alone, Wes.
He's the world
saddle bronc champ,
the first man ever
to ride zombie.
I was at the Cheyenne rodeo
the year you won
the all-around.
How big is this ranch
you ride for?
Oh, big enough.
That's the year you
rode zombie, right?
Think they can use another hand?
I'm sure rig will take you on.
I wouldn't get my hopes up
too high, Mr. McCloud.
Why not?
Lots of foremen
on the big spreads
won't give rodeo cowboys jobs.
Figures they're
all saddle tramps.
Don't they have
rodeos around here?
I ride
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