Any Which Way You Can (1980)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Buddy Van Horn

Writers:

Jeremy Joe Kronsberg (characters)
Stanford Sherman (written by)

Release Date:

17 December 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Tagline:

Faster, funnier and wilder. It'll knock you out.

Plot:

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business...

Plot Keywords:

Fight | Orangutan | Mafia | Motorcycle | Motorcycle Gang

Cast

Clint Eastwood	...	Philo Beddoe
Sondra Locke	...	Lynn Halsey-Taylor
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Orville Boggs
William Smith	...	Jack Wilson
Harry Guardino	...	James Beekman
Ruth Gordon	...	Senovia 'Ma' Boggs
Michael Cavanaugh	...	Patrick Scarfe
Barry Corbin	...	Fat Zack
Roy Jenson	...	Moody, Black Widow
Bill McKinney	...	Dallas, Black Widow
William O'Connell	...	Elmo, Black Widow
John Quade	...	Cholla, Black Widow Leader
Al Ruscio	...	Tony Rapoli Sr. aka Big Tony
Dan Vadis	...	Frank
Camila Ashland	...	Hattie (as Camila Ashlend)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Spain:18 | UK:15 (video rating) (cut) | UK:AA (cinema rating) (cut) | Australia:M | West Germany:12 | UK:18 (uncut) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1981) | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Bakersfield, California, USA

Company:

Malpaso Company, The

Trivia:

The orangutan who played Clyde in this film was found dead of a cerebral hemorrhage two weeks after the film wrapped.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Philo is dragged along the ground by Clyde, Philo is lifting his own head up off the ground every time he is pulled along. However, he’s supposed to be unconscious from the knock to the head from the butt of the shotgun. He should not be able to pull his own head up every time he was pulled along.

Quotes:

Orville Boggs: [to Clyde] Put that spaghetti down!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Death Wish II (1982)

Soundtrack:

Cotton-Eyed Clint

More of a plot this time.

This one has more of a plot than the first one, but I still like the first one a bit more. This time the Clint Eastwood character gets reunited with Sandra Locke. Why he takes her back and so quickly is anyone's guess. A mafia type group wants to set up a fight between Eastwood's character and this real tough guy. He accepts, but later declines when they learn that the guy he is going to fight once killed a guy. The mafia people don't like the fact he backs out and tries other ways to persuade him to fight. The biker gang returns as do many of the main characters. In the end, the fight takes to place, but man is it long. To long in fact, the ending fight just drags a bit too much. All in all though it is a pretty funny movie, but there is just something about the first I still like more.