Every Which Way but Loose |  | Director: James Fargo
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Walter Barnes
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  55 reviews
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD18594D
ISBN: 0790765411
UPC: 085391859420
EAN: 9780790765419
ASIN: B000060MWP
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1978
Release Date: May 7, 2002
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Product Description
The toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. He falls in love with a beautiful singer who leads him on a chase across the American Southwest.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD
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Clint Eastwood's 1978 comedy introduces Filo Beddoe, a truck driver and mechanic whose daily life is an absurd grind. He's constantly coming up short on money, love, and anything else to help him get through the day, while also saddled with a loony mother (deliciously played by Ruth Gordon), a best friend (Geoffrey Lewis) who's not too swift on the uptake, and an orangutan named Clyde who fights almost as well as Clint. While moonlighting as a bare-knuckle fighter, Clint finally meets the girl of his dreams (Sondra Locke), a snooty country singer who rebuffs him even as he pursues her, trailed by bikers and brawlers. It's Eastwood's magnetism and charm that make this more than a mere string of comic sketches, and things move along quickly enough to be entertaining, if a little thin. Clyde is a natural scene-stealer, but it's Ruth Gordon's crazy, cranky old coot who steals the movie. --Robert Lane
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 every which way and great July 21, 2010
hocky37
Despite being some 40 years old and the fact that you can't stand for Locke' role in this movie, Clint is great and the fights and comedy by all the rest of the supporting actors and actresses makes this a classic
 How Can Anyone Sit Through This???? July 12, 2010
Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a child in the 1970's nothing was better than putting on your feety pajamas, climbing into the back of the family station wagon and heading out to your local drive-in. I saw many films under the stars, and have fond memories of eating hot dogs and popcorn while watching the movies play out through the windshield as sound was pumped through a tinny speaker hung from Dad's door. After watching "Every Which Way but Loose" I begged my folks for a monkey....for months it seems all I wanted was a pet monkey that I could also teach how to flip the bird to folks on at red lights. (now I know he isn't a monkey.....but I was only 6 years old so cut me some slack!) The main point is that I loved this movie!!
Okay, jump forward about 30 some years and I decided to introduce my own kids to Clyde and his antics. Oh....dear.....Lord!>?! What happened??? We pop on the film and everything starts off just fine with that mellow but catchy theme song by Eddie Rabbitt...and the next thing I know, it's like some awful country bar nightmare. I really don't remember Mel Tillis as part of the film, and while I remember Sondra Locke being in it (hell...she populated every Eastwood film for years!) I really, really don't remember her singing....CONSTANTLY throughout the film! Seriously, it's like one long whiskey soaked nightmare every time Clint gets near that Palomino Bar. Mel Tillis I could handle....Sondra Locke not so much. It's just too awful for words sitting there while she warbles out some country tune or another.
Clyde is still there, and still the best part of the movie (well...Ruth Gordon as Ma still gives me a chuckle too) but he's not in the film nearly enough. The fight scenes are simply goofy, and who created those "punching" sound effects??? They sound worse than the dubbed Kung Fu theater punches you see on late night TV.
And to top it off, I understand that Clyde (the orangutan from the film) was so severely beaten he died right after the films release?!!!
I say give this one a pass, I should have never tempted fate by watching this again, sometimes the rosy-tint of nostalgia is best left undisturbed.
Every Which Way But Loose June 4, 2010
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
Before there was a Fight Club(A movie I don't care for.) You had Clint Eastwood beating them with his bare knuckles in fights, Although he isn't a trucker as described by the film(unless driving a pickup your a trucker). the movie is funny,yet slow-paced and long.Decent Film but obviously no Dirty Harry. 4 stars Cause eastwood' is in it.
can you resist this monkey? May 17, 2010
A. Rodriguez (Florida, USA)
loved the monkey, he overstaged Clint. Just watching the monkey work is worth the price of the movie, enough said...
Not the greatest...... April 25, 2010
Peter (Melbourne Australia)
Clint Eastwood in comedy.....works quite well.
We are used to the great man in the westerns or the cop movies where he is the man on a mission.
In this movie, he is Philo Beddoe who makes his money by beating people up in unsanctioned fights.
How is the movie? It is a Clint Eastwood movie, so you know it is good. It isn't the level of his serious movies but it is up there, and a lot better than so many one could see.
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