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: #3638 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: Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, 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

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!

"Well it appears that there can't be too many guys driving around with an ape. "
By now its unlikely that you haven't already seen this movie. This is one of those flicks like Animal House or Walking Tall that when you're flipping channels at 3:00AM its impossible to walk away from. Work be damned. But if you've been watching one of the butchered versions of this classic comedy on TBS/TNT or even AMC, then you haven't seen this movie in its full glory.

This movie is hilarious. There are so many lines in this full presentation DVD I'd never heard before including one from my Junior High days when Cholla, the leader of the wrongway biker gang refers to his boys as "GD morphodites" as they are being pummeled by a shorthanded trio of truckers. Not even the droll and ultra boring Sondra Locke (Clint, what were you thinking?) can kill the vibe of this nonstop actioner as Philo Beddoe wades through one bare knuckles contest after another. Geoffrey Lewis makes a great sidekick and very matter of factly picks up Beverly DeAngelo along the way. Ruth Gordon makes me laugh, I wish she was my grandmother. Funny funny funnneeeeeee!

The all new digital transfer and 5.1 remastering has to be seen to be believed. Most of Clint Eastwood's better films have gotten this treatment including Any Which Way You Can, Kelly's Heroes, and The Outlaw Josey Wales, among others, and they are all magnificent! 5 Towtrucks