Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold and Bob Peak
Directed byBuddy Van Horn
Written byStanford Sherman
Based onCharacters
by Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Produced byRobert Daley
Fritz Manes
Starring
CinematographyDavid Worth
Edited by
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 17, 1980 (1980-12-17)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million[1]
Box office$70.7 million (North America)[2]

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Buddy Van Horn and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles.[3][4] The film is the sequel to the 1978 hit comedy Every Which Way but Loose.[5] The cast of the previous film return as Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) reluctantly comes out of retirement from underground bare-knuckle boxing to take on a champion hired by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to ensure the fight takes place, while the neo-Nazi biker gang Philo humiliated in the previous film also comes back for revenge.

  1. ^ Box Office Information for Any Which Way You Can. Archived 2014-12-29 at the Wayback Machine The Wrap. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Any Which Way You Can". www.rottentomatoes.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Any Which Way You Can (1980)". www.allmovie.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  5. ^ Bleiler, D. (1999). TLA Film and Video Guide: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide 2000-2001. TLA Film and Video Guides. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-312-24330-2. Retrieved September 22, 2019.