Product Description

Eastwood plays a hard-drinking trucker with a pet orangutan chasing the love of his life to Colorado. Superstar and Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood ("Unforgiven" "Million Dollar Baby") and sidekick Clyde the Orangutan star in this super blockbuster action-comedy about an easy-going truck driver who also happens to be the best barroom brawler in the San Fernando Valley. Sondra Locke co-stars as Clint's love interest along with Beverly D'Angelo ("National Lampoon's Vacation" "Coal Miner's Daughter") and Ruth Gordon ("Harold and Maude" "Rosemary's Baby"). A box office smash!Running Time: 114 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391859420 Manufacturer No: 18594

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6839 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2002-05-07
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 114 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

An All-Time 70's Comedy Classic!
I simply adore Every Which Way But Loose. It's not just one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies ever, but it's one of my favorite movies, period. After 30 years, it's still just as fresh, funny, lighthearted and enjoyable as it first was in 1978. Clint Eastwood's character of Philo Beddoe was originally intended for Burt Reynolds by the producers who simply wanted Clint to pass the script along to Burt. I'm so glad Clint Eastwood chose the role for himself because it remains one of his best ever. Basically it's the story of the friendship between truck driver Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) and his beer-drinking pet orangutan, Clyde, and their quests to find love and make a little money on the side by bare-knuckle prizefighting. It has pretty much all you could want in a movie: two-fisted action, drama, humor, romance and even some charm to spare. The excellent supporting cast includes Sondra Locke, Geoffery Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Ruth Gordon, and Gregory Walcott. I first saw this one as a kid and have loved it ever since. It's one of the few movies I've seen which still entertains me as much as adult as it did when I was a child. The absolute perfect movie for a weekend get-away in the mountains or a quiet, lazy Sunday afternoon at home. A great story and it spawned an equally classic sequel, 'Any Which Way You Can' (1980). Full of lots of great one-liners and quips from Eastwood and you'll be singing along with the title song sung by country western great Eddie Rabbitt. Highly reccommended!!!!

Action Packed Comedy
I don't usually like movies with a lot of violence in them, but this one is great due to the amount of comedy in it. A good movie for all ages.

Good Humor for Clint Eastwood movie
It's been a long time since I have seen this movie, but it is still as funny as the first time!