Any Which Way You Can

"Get it with Clint and Clyde"

1980 1h 55m EN

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5.8

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20%

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METACRITIC

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6.1

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★5.8TMDB · 393🥫20%Rotten Tomatoes●51Metacritic★6.1IMDB · 21,950

ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

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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'.

“Get it with Clint and Clyde”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Buddy Van Horn
Writers: Stanford Sherman
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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46 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Philo & Clyde Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Buddy Van Horn, shot by David Worth. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Ron Spang shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke and Geoffrey Lewis carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Get it with Clint and Clyde".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0080377 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Buddy Van Horn directs. David Worth behind the camera. Ron Spang cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.
246 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Philo & Clyde Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Buddy Van Horn, shot by David Worth. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Ron Spang shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke and Geoffrey Lewis carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Get it with Clint and Clyde".
8IMDB entry: tt0080377 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 10 themes, including "martial arts", "bare knuckle boxing", "fight", "mafia".

The technical file

Cinematography: David Worth
Editing: Ron Spang
Production design: William J. Creber
Makeup / hair: Joe McKinney
Runtime: 115 min · 1h 55m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $15,000,000
Box office: $70,687,344
Return: 471% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes: 20% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 51/100
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 21,950 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations total

Part of

Philo & Clyde Collection

Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. It stars Clint Eastwood in an uncharacteristic and offbeat comedy role, as Philo Beddoe, a trucker and brawler roaming the American West in search of a lost love while accompanied by his friend/manager Orville and his pet orangutan, Clyde. In the process Philo manages to cross a motley assortment of characters, including a pair of police officers and an entire motorcycle gang (the "Black Widows"), who end up pursuing him for revenge. Eastwood's appearance in the film, after his string of spaghetti western and Dirty Harry roles, somewhat startled the film industry and he was reportedly advised against making it. Panned by critics, the film went on to become an enormous success and became, along with its 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can, two of the highest grossing Eastwood films. When adjusted for inflation, it still ranks as one of the top 200 highest grossing films of all time.

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Ian Beale2017-02-16
★ 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 big ape who is not above soiling in police cars make this a lot of fun. - Ian Beale
John Chard2019-11-17
★ 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 on to take another big money fight. The Black Widows motorcycle gang are still after his blood, Clyde the orangutan is still creating mischief, and Lynn Halsey-Taylor is trying to make up for breaking Philo's heart. Much like the first film this is all very silly but ultimately great fun. Crux of the narrative is Philo being dragged back into the bare knuckle fight game to fight the street fighting king Jack Wilson (Smith excellent). All this and matters of the heart are trying to be repaired. Clyde the orangutan is once again a ball of mischief fun making, while the crowning glory that is the big fight is superbly staged and prolonged for grand effect. There's a wonderfully fruity section that sees parallel seductions going on - including Clyde and a lady orangutan - and there's actually some adult writing in how the fighters are shown to be compassionate men, as opposed to just being brainless thugs making a few bucks. It was another big hit at the box office, once again proving that sometimes theatre goers just want to leave the brain at the door and have a fun time of things. 7/10
r96sk2022-01-20
★ 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 Eastwood tries his best, I guess, and is one of the brighter parts, everyone else is very forgettable - including Sondra Locke's Lynn, who is all of a sudden the opposite to what they set up in the original. Then you also have the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Any_Which_Way_You_Can#:~:text=Manis%2C%20the%20orangutan,William%20Munns.%5B9%5D">dodginess</a> of stuff offscreen with the orangutans. To think, this beat a Warner Bros. box office single day record set by <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/superman/">Superman</a>'</em>. 1980 - you poor, poor souls.