- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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3 out of 5
Clint Eastwood cruises through this coarse comedy as a travelling prizefighter whose best buddy is a beer-swilling, lowlife orangutan named Clyde. There are plenty of lively scenes to keep fans satisfied (with some bare-knuckle fight sequences that squeamish viewers may find disturbing), and Eastwood just about manages to avoid being made a monkey of by his scene-stealing co-star. But his romantic hankerings after country singer Sondra Locke don't add much to the brew. Hardly one of the films for which Eastwood would most like to be remembered, but it did such good box-office that he was tempted back into a feeble sequel, Any Which Way You Can.
Plot Summary
Comedy drama starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. LA trucker and part-time bare-knuckle fighter Philo Beddoe has an unusual friend in Clyde the orangutan. When Philo splits up with would-be country singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor, and humiliates some Hell's Angels, the scene is set for action on the road to Denver.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Philo Beddoe
- Clint Eastwood
- Lynn Halsey-Taylor
- Sondra Locke
- Orville
- Geoffrey Lewis
- Ma
- Ruth Gordon
- Echo
- Beverly D'Angelo
- Tank Murdock
- Walter Barnes
- Clerk at DMV
- George Chandler
- Woody
- Roy Jenson
- Herb
- James McEachin
- Dallas
- Bill McKinney
- Elmo
- William O'Connell
- Cholla
- John Quade
- Frank
- Dan Vadis
- Putnam
- Gregory Walcott
- Trailer court manager
- Hank Worden
- Sweeper driver
- Jerry Brutsche
- Kincaid's manager
- Cary Michael Cheifer
- Girl at Palomino
- Janet Louise Cole
- Fat man's friend
- Sam Gilman
- Trucker
- Chuck Hicks
Crew
- Director
- James Fargo
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