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The [carefully written and scripted] scene begins with an ill Arletta having been toted to the prison camp compound
in a makeshift bed in the back of an old pickup truck driven by her son John [a half-brother to Luke], John is
accompanied by a young son of his own. Arletta wastes no time in harassing Luke by beckoning him to come
around to the other side of the pickup truck bed knowing full well that Luke can't go out of sight of the prison
guard. The guard quickly denies Luke permission to go where Arletta as beckoned him to be. A smiling Arletta
briefly relishes in her ability to make life impossible for her favored son Luke. Immediately Arletta begins to
challenge Luke in his lack of having any children of his own. Luke comments that yeah it cannot be done just now.
Moving on to more devastation Arletta begins to side with everyone but Luke in her taking sides with the law, any
past girlfriend or anything else that can put Luke down. In the crescendo of the scene Arletta begins to cough and
choke while an obedient Luke lifts a glass of water to her, yet amazingly Arletta won't even give Luke the
satisfaction of assisting her and Arletta twice refuses to accept the much needed glass of water from Luke's
outstretched hand. Previously Arletta had just dug into Luke by pointing out that Luke had never met his biological
father - something Luke would have liked to have done. Permanently finishing Luke off Arletta tells him that she
will soon be dead and "it won't matter what he does when he gets out of prison" and that she was going to leave
everything to his half-brother John so regardless his life didn't matter to her anyhow but that he should try to just
"laugh if up" anyhow. -- After Luke has been unfairly kicked while he is down by the system and now by his own
family the movie at its lowest point then introduces religion as a main new theme in the movie.
Cool Hand Luke - filmsite: Luke's sickly, dying mother Arletta (Jo Van
Fleet) visits one Sunday afternoon to say goodbye - Review by Tim
Dirks
Luke's sickly, dying mother Arletta (Jo Van Fleet) visits one Sunday afternoon to say goodbye, stiffly and painfully
propped up in the bed of the pickup truck - it is presumably their last time together. Driven by her respectable son
John, Sr. (John Pearce), she is chain-smoking a cigarette while coughing [with lung cancer or consumptive TB?].
Arletta still cares and expresses warm affection for her wayward yet favored son - but with guarded words.
Although she is disappointed about how he turned out (and feeling guilty about her role as caregiver), Luke tells her
that she'd done her best raising him as a single mother. In the tragic scene which implies much about her son's
broken childhood and upbringing, the terminally-ill Arletta expresses regrets and resigns herself to "let go" of her
independent-minded son who tried to live like she did - "free and above board." In the poignant conclusion to their
conversation, she plans - after her death - to give her inheritance to her less-loved son John.
Cool Hand Luke - Where Are They Now? Joy Harmon (The Girl) - Aunt
Joy's Cakes - Aunt Joy's Cakes began with Joy Harmon's love for
sweets and lifelong passion for baking - most remembered for her role
in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman and George
Kennedy - Joy Harmon plays a sexy, young woman who the men in the
chain gang call Lucille - She drives the prisoners crazy as she
seductively washes her car on a hot summer day
Aunt Joy's Cakes began with Joy Harmon's love for sweets and lifelong passion for baking. Before she was Aunt
Joy, Joy Harmon was an actress in the sixties known for her ingénue style. She enjoyed bringing freshly baked
goods for all of her co-workers, including Groucho Marx, who Joy Harmon appeared with on the television shows
"You Bet Your Life" and "Tell It to Groucho." She also acted in many films, such as "Village of the Giants" and
"Angel in my Pocket," but is most remembered for her role in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman
and George Kennedy, who won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for the film. Joy Harmon plays a sexy, young
woman who the men in the chain gang call Lucille. She drives the prisoners crazy as she seductively washes her car
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