Any Which Way You Can

1980 115 min ★ 5.8 Action, Adventure, Comedy

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he's pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.

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Cast

Clint Eastwood

Philo Beddoe

Sondra Locke

Lynn Halsey-Taylor

Geoffrey Lewis

Orville Boggs

William Smith

Jack Wilson

Harry Guardino

James Beekman

Ruth Gordon

Ma Boggs

Michael Cavanaugh

Patrick Scarfe

Barry Corbin

Fat Zack

Roy Jenson

Moody

Bill McKinney

Dallas

Details

Director

Buddy Van Horn

Tagline

"Get it with Clint and Clyde"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$70,687,344

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions

Reviews

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Ian Beale

February 16, 2017

★ 8/10

**Eastwood apes his owm image again.** This superior sequel to _Every Which Way But Loose_ is a lot of fun and has more laughs than its choppy predecessor. Phil Beddoe and his monkey are targeted by the mafia who make him an offer he cannot refuse. Along the way he encounters his _arch enemies_ - the _cretinous_ Black Widow biker gang who have a score to settle. Big laughs, big fun and a ...

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John Chard

November 17, 2019

★ 7/10

More of the same in pleasant sequel to Every Which Way But Loose. Any Which Way You can is directed by Buddy Van Horn and written by Stanford Sherman and Jeremy Joe Kronsberg. It stars Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith and C.J. the Orangutan. Philo decides to retire from bare knuckle fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is spurred o...

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r96sk

January 20, 2022

★ 4/10

<em>'Any Which Way You Can'</em> is woeful. It would be quicker to note what I liked about this - nothing - than to note the negatives. It's such a haphazardly created film, with every detail of it being either nonsensical, extremely forced or just dull. It's such a drag also, I checked the elapsed time at one point expecting to see at least 1hr 15mins... I had seen barely 40 minutes. Clint ...