Rating: PG
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 09/02/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Ger/Japanese
Dubbed: English/French/Ger/Japanese
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Clint Eastwood's first
comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles.
Eastwood plays
Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels from fight to fight in a beat-up truck, accompanied by his "pal"
Clyde, a orangutan with a mean right hook, and his human buddy
Orville (
Geoffrey Lewis). During a stopover,
Philo meets and falls in love with would-be
country & western singer
Lynn Halsey-Taylor (
Sondra Locke). After a while, she wants to break off the relationship, but he doesn't -- a shaky plot peg upon which to hang several reels' worth of zany car chases and confrontations with such opponents as a gang of bikers and a battalion of hostile lawmen. Adding to the fun is
Ruth Gordon as
Eastwood's don't-mess-with-me octogenarian mother, and
Beverly D'Angelo as an ace sharpshooter. The enormous box-office success of
Every Which Way But Loose yielded an equally wacky -- and equally lucrative -- sequel,
Any Which Way You Can.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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