Movie Synopsis:
Any Which Way You CanPhilo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Storyline
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. He decides to
retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another
fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called
Clyde all add to the 'fun'. Written by
Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
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Plot Keywords: fight | mafia | motorcycle | orangutan | motorcycle gang | See All (119) »
Taglines: Faster, funnier and wilder. It'll knock you out.
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Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 17 December 1980 (USA) See more »
Also Known As: Mit Vollgas nach San Fernando See more »
Filming Locations: Jackson Hole Airport, Jackson, Wyoming, USA See more »
Company Credits
Production Co: Malpaso Company, The, Warner Bros. See more »
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Sound Mix: Stereo
Color: Color (DeLuxe)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1 See full technical specs »
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A replacement had to be found for Manis, the original Clyde, as he had grown too much in the two years since the first film. See more »Goofs
When the bikers are fighting over the wigs, the 'invisible' cap covering the hair of one of the bikers is clearly loose - the biker with the red bandanna round his neck. See more »Quotes
Cholla, Black Widow Leader: Why me Lord? You made other men out of clay. Mine, you made out of shit. See more »Soundtracks
AcapulcoWritten by Larry Collins (as L. Collins) and M. Leath
Sung by Johnny Duncan
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Nearly all the characters from Any Which Way But Loose are back in this film Any Which Way You Can. Clint is once again Philo Beddoe who works part time hauling away wrecked cars, but makes his real money in the illegal bare knuckle prize fight racket. Clint lives in southern California, probably in a place not unlike Carmel, California where he was mayor. He lives with his mother Ruth Gordon, his partner in auto collision work Geoffrey Lewis and his pet orangutan, Clyde.
The last film ended with Clint not winning Sondra Locke, the country singer he lost his heart to. But Sondra's back now and when Clint wants to back out of a bare knuckle fight with reigning eastern champion William Smith because he's tired of the racket, the gangsters backing the fight kidnap her to force him to go through with it.
As in the last film, Clyde the orangutan gets the lion's share of the laughs. The sex life of the orangutan gets even more screen time, Clint and Geoff Lewis don't just find a zoo with a female orangutan in it for Clyde to mate with, they actually get him an adjoining motel room with Clyde and his lady love in one room and Clint and Sondra in another.
William Smith has the most interesting part in the film, usually he's a thoroughgoing bad guy in his films, but in Any Which Way You Can he's got a sense of honor and fair play, much to the distress of Harry Guardino and the rest of the gangsters backing the fight.
Any Which Way You Can has the same sense of rollicking lowbrow comedy that the first film has, maybe more so. As Clint Eastwood moves into his eighties maybe he'll try comedy again. He'd be one great grumpy old man as he proved in Gran Torino.