While grocery shopping this morning, I found a DVD copy of Any Which Way You Can (1980) in a bin for $5.99. I already have this movie on VHS but figured that I'd get the DVD anyway since the price was right.
I watched it this afternoon. This is the second Philo Beddoe and orangutan Clyde movie. It is hard to believe that this sequel to 1978's Every Which Way But Loose is 31 years old!
It was directed by Buddy Van Horn and starred Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis and Ruth Gordon.
This one involves bare-knuckled brawler Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) having a big fight forced on him after Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Locke) is kidnapped by New York gambling goons. The fight took place in Jackson, Wyoming. A lot of great scenery of Wyoming is featured.
Every Which Way But Loose was not critically acclaimed, but it did make over $75 million at the box office. A sequel was a natural. Unfortunately, Any Which Way You Can was poorly-paced and it lacked a music score. The only music were the music interludes in various nightclubs. Glen Campbell, who announced that he is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease this week, has one of them (singing the title song).
A bit of trivia: During the movie, Beddoe and Halsey-Taylor decide to go to Bakersfield, California for a weekend getaway and stay at the Pink Cloud Motel. The motel, although supposed to be in Bakersfield, is actually on Sepulveda Blvd. in the San Fernando Valley in the North Hills area. It is still there.
Like in Every Which Way But Loose, North Hollywood's Palomino nightclub was prominently featured. It still stands but it ceased being the Palomino in the mid-1990s. It is now a Latino nightclub.
Any Which Way You Can was released on December 17, 1980. A month prior to the movie's release, I attended a private reception at the Century Plaza Hotel on Election Night to celebrate the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency. Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke were also at the reception and I managed to get Eastwood's autograph on my pass ticket (below).
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Great post...thanks for the reminder to blog about the everyday things that people want to read. As a real estate agent, I too struggle with what to blog about. Thanks!
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