Every Which Way But Loose

1978

Action / Comedy

38
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 27 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 32156 32.2K

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Plot summary

Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.

Director

James Fargo Photo
James Fargo

Top cast

William O'Connell Photo
William O'Connell as Elmo
Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
Roy Jenson Photo
Roy Jenson as Woody
Chuck Hicks Photo
Chuck Hicks as Trucker
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865.89 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 12
2.11 GB
1916*1078
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Flint-14 7 / 10

Guy gets girl, guy loses girl, guy gets ape. Happy ending.

Fun flick. Caught it for the first time on video. Though it was obviously aimed for the redneck, teenage drive-in crowd, the stellar performance of Clyde raises this to the level of an art house flick. Clint did what Clint does best: fights and wins. The one distraction was the startling unappeal of Sondra Locke. Her lack of talent in acting is only surpassed by her lack of talent in singing. Other cast members included a loyal buddy, Orville, a swearing granny, two blundering cops, and a gang of wimpy bikers.
Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

I think he's spending too much time with Clyde.

Every Which Way But Loose is directed by James Fargo and written by Jeremy Joe Kronsberg. It stars Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo and Manis The Orangutan.It surprised the studio executives, even had them sweating about the release, but the adventures of Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) and his pet Orangutan proved to be a smash hit at the box office.Beddoe is a trucker who also happens to make money by bare knuckle fighting, and he's very good at it. Clyde the orangutan is a full on personality himself, and between them they wind up being trailed by vengeful coppers and a very incompetent motorcycle gang. Philo's brother Orville (Lewis) is along for the ride and polar opposite love interests come into play via Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Locke) and Echo (D'Angelo).Plot is very thin on the ground, we are in fact viewing a series of events that are mined for comedy purpose - which totally work. Action comes by way of the punch ups Philo gets into, with Eastwood as always proving to be one of the better punch throwing actors of his generation, while Lewis shines bright as the best friend and voice of reason to Philo.The love story sub-plot involving Lynn and Philo - and its subsequent revelations - feels a touch out of place, since this is such a chilled and relaxed comedy picture. Which is the key, the makers know what they are doing, they are having fun and ask the audience to do the same. The public lapped it up and ensured that a sequel of similar tropes would follow. That also proved to be popular since it was more of the same.Open the beer and popcorn and just run with it, it was never meant to be high art etc. 7/10
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