Every Which Way But Loose

UPC: 883929078059

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Violence, Brief Nudity, Questionable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels from fight to fight in a beat-up truck, accompanied by his "pal" Clyde, a orangutan with a mean right hook, and his human buddy Orville (Geoffrey Lewis). During a stopover, Philo meets and falls in love with would-be country & western singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Sondra Locke). After a while, she wants to break off the relationship, but he doesn't -- a shaky plot peg upon which to hang several reels' worth of zany car chases and confrontations with such opponents as a gang of bikers and a battalion of hostile lawmen. Adding to the fun is Ruth Gordon as Eastwood's don't-mess-with-me octogenarian mother, and Beverly D'Angelo as an ace sharpshooter. The enormous box-office success of Every Which Way But Loose yielded an equally wacky -- and equally lucrative -- sequel, Any Which Way You Can. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Action

Features: cc

Every Which Way But Loose

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 114 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Every Which Way But Loose
1. Credits [3:03]
2. Punchy Over Peanuts [2:47]
3. Tricky and Testy [2:36]
4. Brawling for Dollars [3:39]
5. The Palomino [3:07]
6. Lynn Halsey-Taylor [5:24]
7. Black Widows Road Chase [4:39]
8. How Philo Met Clyde [2:44]
9. Squashed Spiders [3:29]
10. No Respect [3:01]
11. Vehicular Horseplay [:12]
12. Rules When Meeting a Lady [5:04]
13. Calling the Cops [2:53]
14. Four for the Road [1:37]
15. Whuppin' the Widows [6:08]
16. Getting Acquainted [3:31]
17. Ma and the Bikers [2:51]
18. Lynn's Whereabouts [2:33]
19. Doing the Town [3:10]
20. Clyde's Date [3:21]
21. Action in Santa Fe [3:09]
22. We Don't Give Up [5:22]
23. Love on the Run [3:15]
24. Cops Go Philo-fishing [3:16]
25. Showdown with the Widows [7:13]
26. Zanza Bar [8:18]
27. Not Too Smart [3:17]
28. Tank Murdock [3:19]
29. On the Road Again [5:47]
30. End Credits [2:21]

Donald Guarisco

Clint Eastwood's entry into the school of "good ol' boy" action comedies that Burt Reynolds popularized with Smokey and the Bandit is far from his best work but doesn't deserve the critical vilification it has received over the years. It's one of Eastwood's less consistent films from this era, primarily due to Jeremy Joe Kronsberg's script; the characters are fitfully amusing but the pacing is too slack and the storytelling too episodic to generate the electric charge of a top-notch slapstick comedy. It also gets bogged down in an array of subplots that are never integrated in a thoughtful or interesting way. Despite these key story flaws, Every Which Way But Loose remains an engaging affair for a few reasons. The first is its lack of pretension: director James Fargo keeps viewers from pondering the weak storyline by treating the film like a live-action cartoon and piling on car chases, bloodless bar brawls, and slapstick with vigor and gusto. The second is the skilled comic performances of the cast: Geoffrey Lewis makes a great deadpan comic foil for Eastwood, Sondra Locke brings the right intensity to her "lady of mystery" character, and Ruth Gordon is a total scene-stealer as the foul-mouthed, ill-tempered Ma. The final and most important reason is Clint Eastwood's performance: his work here reveals a skill for dry comedy that had only been touched on in his other films and his amiable performance reveals a star who is not only willing to act funny but is also capable of poking fun at his own "macho" image. In the end, Every Which Way But Loose is too much of a mixed bag to be given an unreserved recommendation, but it is well worth a look to fans of cartoonish comedies and anyone seriously interested in Eastwood's career. ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Jerry Brutsche  Actor 
Billie Jackson  Actor 
Lloyd Nelson  Actor 
Jerry Wills  Actor 
Jan Stratton  Actor 
Timothy P. Hirvin  Actor 
James McEachin  Actor 
Gregory Walcott  Actor 
Chuck Waters  Actor 
Cary Michael Cheifer  Actor 
Richard Jamison  Actor 
John Quade  Actor 
Fritz Manes  Actor 
George Dockstader  Actor 
Jackson D. Kane  Actor 
Dan Vadis  Actor 
George Orrison  Actor 
Michael Mann  Actor 
Jeannette Louise Cole  Actor 
Roy Jenson  Actor 
Tom Runyon  Actor 
Sam Gilman  Actor 
Hartley Silver  Actor 
George Chandler  Actor 
Joyce Jameson  Actor 
Thelma Pelish  Actor 
Hank Worden  Actor 
Bruce Scott  Actor 
Al Silvani  Actor 
Chuck Hicks  Actor 
Ken Wahl  Actor 
Jeremy Kronsberg  Actor 
Walter Barnes  Actor 
Tim Irwin  Actor 
Bill McKinney  Actor 
George Wilbur  Actor 
William O'Connell  Actor 
Guy Way  Actor 
Robert Daley  Producer 
James Fargo  Director 
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg  Screenwriter 
Steve Dorff  Composer (Music Score) 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Sondra Locke  Actor 
Geoffrey Lewis  Actor 
Beverly D'Angelo  Actor 
Ruth Gordon  Actor 

Country: USA