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Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Director: James Fargo
Writer: Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, the Orangutan
Genre: Action, Comedy
The wild adventures of a truck driving, street fighting cowboy (Clint Eastwood), who drinks beer and chases Sandra Locke around the country, all while his pet orangutan and best buddy come along for the ride.
The second highest grossing film of 1978 was non other than Clint Eastwood's first foray into wacky comedy. Panned by critics, the film went on to be one of Eastwood's biggest success and ranks in the top 200 of the highest grossing films (when accounting for inflation).
Original this had been slated to be another wild and crazy comedy in the vein of Smoky and the Bandit and was to star Burt Reynolds. Too bad it didn't star Mr Reynolds. I'm a big fan of Eastwood as an actor and as a director, but as a comedy star he doesn't have a lot going for him.
For starters he comes across as way too serious and restrained. Probably because in real life he's described as a quiet, reserved man. That personality worked wonders for him in the Spaghetti westerns, but here he seems too serious, which makes the film seem serious and it's way too corny to be serious.
Poor Clint he's pursued by everyone in this film, including the dangerous Black Widow motorcycle gang. Which reminds of Eric Von Zipper from How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)...Then there's two hair brained cops who Clint takes out by B-slapping one of them with a trout (that's a fish to you none fishermen types).
All this is going on as Clint is hopelessly seeing Sandra Locke, who was Eastwood's real life girlfriend and protege. Together they made six films, including this one where she sings.
Sandra Locke actually does sing in this movie, pretty good at it too. In fact it's the country western songs performed by the actual singers that make this movie decent. Of course the title song Every Which Way But Loose was a big hit for Eddie Rabbit.
If you like fist fighting, there's a lot of it here and lots of Olympia beer drinking too. Mainly I suggest watching it for the music, and for Ruth Gordon who's always funny and for Clyde the Orangutan.
Writer: Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, the Orangutan
Genre: Action, Comedy
The wild adventures of a truck driving, street fighting cowboy (Clint Eastwood), who drinks beer and chases Sandra Locke around the country, all while his pet orangutan and best buddy come along for the ride.
The second highest grossing film of 1978 was non other than Clint Eastwood's first foray into wacky comedy. Panned by critics, the film went on to be one of Eastwood's biggest success and ranks in the top 200 of the highest grossing films (when accounting for inflation).
Original this had been slated to be another wild and crazy comedy in the vein of Smoky and the Bandit and was to star Burt Reynolds. Too bad it didn't star Mr Reynolds. I'm a big fan of Eastwood as an actor and as a director, but as a comedy star he doesn't have a lot going for him.
For starters he comes across as way too serious and restrained. Probably because in real life he's described as a quiet, reserved man. That personality worked wonders for him in the Spaghetti westerns, but here he seems too serious, which makes the film seem serious and it's way too corny to be serious.
Poor Clint he's pursued by everyone in this film, including the dangerous Black Widow motorcycle gang. Which reminds of Eric Von Zipper from How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)...Then there's two hair brained cops who Clint takes out by B-slapping one of them with a trout (that's a fish to you none fishermen types).
All this is going on as Clint is hopelessly seeing Sandra Locke, who was Eastwood's real life girlfriend and protege. Together they made six films, including this one where she sings.
Sandra Locke actually does sing in this movie, pretty good at it too. In fact it's the country western songs performed by the actual singers that make this movie decent. Of course the title song Every Which Way But Loose was a big hit for Eddie Rabbit.
If you like fist fighting, there's a lot of it here and lots of Olympia beer drinking too. Mainly I suggest watching it for the music, and for Ruth Gordon who's always funny and for Clyde the Orangutan.