Any Which Way You Can
1980 · Movie · PG · 115 min · ★ 5.8 · 36% critics
A laid-back brawler tries to walk away from bare-knuckle fighting and focus on a quieter life, but pressure from organized crime pulls him back toward one more big payday. With a rowdy biker gang causing trouble and an orangutan sidekick stirring up chaos, the road to retirement turns into a string of scrapes, laughs, and bruises.
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Details
- Years
- 1980
- Release date
- 1980-12-17
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Critic score
- 36/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (370 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a silly, rough-and-tumble comedy with lots of fistfights, bikers, and an animal sidekick, especially if you liked Pink Cadillac; Not for you if you want a tight plot or more modern humor.
Pros: big laughs; goofy animal antics; crowd-pleasing brawls | Cons: thin, rambling story; crude dated humor; too many side plots
Themes
- martial arts
- bare knuckle boxing
- fight
- mafia
- motorcycle
- motorcycle gang
- orangutan
- monkey
- street fight
- action hero
Cast & crew
Clint Eastwood
as Philo Beddoe
Sondra Locke
as Lynn Halsey-Taylor
Geoffrey Lewis
as Orville Boggs
William Smith
as Jack Wilson
Harry Guardino
as James Beekman
Ruth Gordon
as Ma Boggs
Michael Cavanaugh
as Patrick Scarfe
Barry Corbin
as Fat Zack
Roy Jenson
as Moody
Bill McKinney
as Dallas
Directed by Buddy Van Horn