Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious podcast. Jason beers to you, My friend beers
to you. Now. It seems absolutely ridiculous that Clint Eastwood
would be singing a song at the intro to this
movie with mister Ray Charles himself. It seems ridiculous that
Clint Eastwood would be singing at all. But as it
turns out, he has had a long career of singing.
Speaker 2: Bez youd time, he's he's a musician.
Speaker 1: He sang in Rawhide Reliates, got up on stage and
sang a song. Yes, wow, greag he was in. He
was in a freaking musical.
Speaker 2: Ain't your Wagon, baby pinterr Wagon?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I mean he's a musician. But man, I told you
my ears have not stopped bleeding for this.
Speaker 1: It was not his best work.
Speaker 2: Well it's almost like he kind of talks it. Uh
when whipped them local boy, Oh didn't we and we
bought him drinks all nice and when movie, you know,
and for him to be singing with Ray Charles just don't.
We'll talk about what works with this movie here in
just a minute.
Speaker 1: All right. So last episode we talked about every which
way but Loose. Yes, and today we're here to talk
about any which way you can. But what we didn't
talk about last episode is what happened after the movie
came out. How was it received? And the answer is
it was received poorly by the critics. Yes, the critics
hated it. Jean Cisco gave this movie two and a
half stars. Okay, do you know what the public did?
What they bought tickets?
Speaker 2: Yes, they did.
Speaker 1: This is at the time, Clint Eastwood's most profitable movie.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We're talking about all of the spaghetti westerns. We're talking
about all of the Dirty Harry movies that had come
up to this point. We're talking about play Misty for Me,
all of that.
Speaker 2: When adjusted for inflation, every which way but Loose ranks
as one of the top two hundred and fifty most
profitable films of all time, all time. Let me say
that again, Top two fifty most profitable films of all
time adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. Listen to this.
Speaker 2: It the budget was five million, It made one hundred
and four million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's raking it in man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. So with that kind of success, you
have to do a sequel.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you got to do it right right.
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, the guy who wrote the
first movie has a second movie that he is ready
to write, puts that one out. Fixes a lot of problems,
does there every which way? But Loose is not a
perfect movie, and they fix a lot of stuff come
second round. They filmed this movie in the summer of
nineteen eighty and they do a different director and Clint
Eastwood takes yet another cue from Burt Reynolds and brings
in to direct his stunt man. This movie is directed
by Buddy Van Horn, who was Eastwood's stunt double in
a ton of movies he had done. The Enforcer directed
it as well. He knew what he was doing, and
so he brings him in. And the timing on this
one is tighter, the comedy is funnier. Okay, they do
a lot of great stuff. By the way, Buddy van
Horn I mentioned earlier in our first episode about Walter
Piggy Barnes being a sheriff in High Planes Drifter. Buddy
van Horn was yet another sheriff in High Planes Drifter.
Two different sheriffs, but that is probably his most famous
acting role. But obviously he's done some good work directing
as well. Okay, I wonder if him and how I
need him more buddies.
Speaker 2: I bet they were. They had to be everybody. They
probably did cocaine together.
Speaker 1: They probably dated the same girl, had the same time
with the cocaine.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'll tell you what. Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds.
But Clint Eastwood in the late seventies, he had the
kind of clout to say to the studio, I want
this guy directed me. Yes, I know he's my stunt double.
I want my girlfriend to be the lead. I want
all of my buddies to be in the movie. And
we're gonna go on the road and we're gonna have
a great time. This is the beginning of things like
Kenniball Run. Yeah, where you get a bunch of friends together,
they have a great time. They all party the whole
way down and the chemistry shows on screen.
Speaker 1: Big road Trip, It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: There's one other thing that you mentioned right there, and
we'll probably talk about it here in a minute. What
they did with any which way you can and what
movies don't do enough of. In my opinion, they figured
out what worked, they cut out what didn't, and they
doubled down on the laughs and the fun. Why don't
people do that more often?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is set two years after Filo Bettal
fought Tank Murdoch in the first movie, which we haven't
even really talked about that he fights Tank Murdock. The
whole build up of the movie is this big fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah that he throws. Yeah, it's another bad decision. I
don't I mean, it's I don't know if they're taking
their cue from Rocky or what the deal was.
Speaker 2: There was a trend in the late seventies to have
these sort of competition movies or sports movies where the
team or person loses and then ends up learning something
about themselves, and that was just kind of the trend.
So you got Rocky and you got the Bad News Bears. Yeah,
you got every which way but loose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, I think the kind of the
idea in every which Way but Loose was He's hearing
all of the people talk about Tank Murdoch being washed
up yep, and he imagines himself in that position, right.
He doesn't want to be the guy who's washed up
in a few years, like Tank is fighting these dumb
fights years later, which is a great lead in for
this one, because in this one he's like, I'm done fighting.
I'm not going to do it anymore.
Speaker 2: Starting to like it too much?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the pain.
Speaker 2: None of that made it any sense to me, but okay, whatever, right.
Speaker 1: So, of course, nice counterpoint to this decision to retire
from the bare knuckle brawling is there are some gangster
mafia guys coming from New York who have heard of
Filo Betto and they've got their own guy, Jack Wilson.
Jack Wilson, what a great name. Yes, and they're like,
we can make so much money if we can get
these guys together to fight. And so when the guy
from New York shows up to talk to Filo Betto,
Filo Betto's like, I'm retired, not doing it anymore. And
then he pulls out what twenty thousand dollars? Here you go, right, Okay,
I'm back in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking for mister Filo Beetto.
Speaker 1: You're talking to him.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to his feet, well.
Speaker 1: The top half of him, can hear you?
Speaker 2: Okay? So the interesting thing to me, Jack Wilson, we
talked about. He's played by William Smith. Yeah, he plays
the cop in Rumblefish.
Speaker 1: There's another guy who has I mean he's he was
acting first. He just passed away twenty twenty one. Okay,
he'd acted for seventy nine years. He started acting when
he was eight years old. And like some rely black
and white Frankenstein movie. Really yes, yeah, has had a
huge career. He was really well known in the seventies
as Anthony Falconetti in the miniseries rich Man Poor Man. Okay,
we know him because we talked about him being in
both Rumblefish and The Outsiders. Yes, and he's in Conan
the Barbarian, Yes, and Red Don.
Speaker 2: He's the general in Red Don.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1: There you go. He is a great character actor.
Speaker 2: First of all, he's muscled up. Oh yeah, and he
when he's throwing those punches, I'm like, dude, this guy's
a hurricane.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know. Yeah, he looked fierce, he did. And
his nose it looks like his nose has probably been
broken a couple of times. Like maybe he really has
been in these fights. I mean, he was the perfect
casting choice for the Apollo creed To Filo Betto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a great scene where he's sort of spying
on Filo. He's befriended him and so he's hanging out
with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this subterfuge of hey, do you mind if I
jog with you? Yeah? How far have we gone? About
five miles? How much further are we going? About another five? Yeah? Wow,
it's a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of like when you and I starting
chogging together.
Speaker 1: It turns kind of.
Speaker 2: But they go to the bar together and somebody yells
at Linn Halsey Taylor, who has wiggled her way back
into Filo's heart somehow right, which you know, okay whatever,
But he's like, why don't you get somebody that can sing?
Which we as the audience are kind of like, yeah, dude,
exactly yeah, and then.
Speaker 1: But we're also thinking you shouldn't be saying that's what
that guy right behind you.
Speaker 2: And Jack Wilson says that's not polite. When he said that,
I was like, look out, dude, this guy's gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might get somebody can sing her here. That's
not polite. I forget it.
Speaker 2: Complaining departments open now, Sonny.
Speaker 1: But again all just to sub refuse so that he
can see how good Filo Betto can fight.
Speaker 2: Eats it like candy.
Speaker 1: He likes the pain. I know what you want to know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. You're fast and you like pain. You
eat it like candy.
Speaker 2: But it's cool. I really like the Jack Wilson character
because number one, he's tough, yeah, but he's kind of friendly.
Speaker 1: He's likable.
Speaker 2: He's likable. He's like, let's forget this fight, man, there's
no point to it. Let's just call it off.
Speaker 1: And then when they have the fight, well, I'm not
going to give up. You gotta give up, right, I'm
not gonna give up.
Speaker 2: No, your arm's broken. See, you need to give up.
It's not over. Yeah, the final scene. Let's we'll talk
about that here in Yeah, Okay, let's talk about the cast.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we talked about the cast because there's a
ton of carry over we talked about in our first episode. Obviously,
William Smith is a new addition. And then we have
the Mafia guys. Yes, they come in. You got Harry
Gardino as Beakman. Yep. He was in several of the
Dirty Harry movies. He was in Dirty Harry and he
was in the Enforcer. Okay, and then you've got Michael Cavanaugh,
who's the guy who comes to give him the money. Yes,
he was also in The Enforcer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Yeah, let's talk about the bartender, mister James Gammon,
who plays lou for Major League.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got to talk to a guy about it,
said a white Wall.
Speaker 2: Shut up, Dorn. He actually is like he's like File
his friend, and he always protects Clyde at the bar.
Speaker 1: I love it. And the guy who's like giving Clyde
trouble is dressed in a yellow suit like a panama.
It's frigging brilliant right there. That is brilliant. Yes, another
new care character we just talked about from our last
episode where we had our dear friend, doctor Chad Briggs,
wargame expert, talking about the movie War Games. Go check
that out if you haven't heard it.
Speaker 2: Yes, but we from War Games.
Speaker 1: Not yet, but you know there it was comment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Barry Corbyn, Barry Corbyn. I love his character in this.
Speaker 1: His character's name is fat Zach.
Speaker 2: Fat Zach. Yes, he's so Texas nice. You know, he's
playing strip poker with the old ladies.
Speaker 1: And did you recognize Julie Brown?
Speaker 2: I did recognize Julie Brown.
Speaker 3: She'll show you the latest videos, Miss an Events, She'll show.
Speaker 1: You amazing things.
Speaker 3: You'll show you a really good time, Miss Toody Brown.
Speaker 1: Star seemed just say, Julie Wednesday said seven thirty six
thirty Central and again on Sundays at one thirty twelve
thirty Central, only on MTV. So don't touch that dial.
You turn the channel, I will hunt you down and
kill you like the dog you.
Speaker 2: Later after I'd seen MTV for a million hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was before MTV, but not you know, not
Downtown Julie Brown, but the other Juli Brown. Yeah, the
other Julie Brown. Yes, what knockers. Well, thank you doctor.
She was in this as one of the bimbos, if
you will. Yes, playing strip poker and flying in the planes. Man,
those guys, the Texas guys and their girlfriends was another
bit of comedy gold for this movie.
Speaker 2: It was so fun right, they're flying upside down and
the girls can't keep their moves in their shirt. By
the way, Julie Brown's character's name is Candy, because of
course it is like candy right now. Wait a minute,
John Quaid's back.
Speaker 3: Yep, Lord, you have given me these crosses to bear
and I will carry them all the way from Jerusalem
to Jackson, whichever is closer.
Speaker 1: But hear me, Lord, so why walk through the Valley
of the Shadow of Death.
Speaker 3: I will chew on filet petals half for my last.
Speaker 2: We have Ann freaking Ramsey in any which way you
can do you know who Anne Ramsey is? When I
say the name Anne Ramsey, what do you got for me?
Speaker 1: The night was Saltrey.
Speaker 2: One doesn't have any friends. She's Mama Frettellian the Goonies.
Speaker 1: Yes, she's Mama Fertellian the Goonies. She's Mama and throw
Mama from the train. She's one of the homeless.
Speaker 2: People in Scrooge, which we talked about.
Speaker 1: Yep, go check out our Scrooge versus Christmas Vacation episode
and she is in it with her husband Logan Ramsey. Yes,
who is also one of the bums in Scrooge. Yes,
that was one of the scenes that I remembered in
the hotel when her when she's trying to pack the
bag and he's looking at her and all of a
sudden all he can see is the hula skirt dancing.
I was like, that is freaking hysterical.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: It was gross when I was eleven, but the day
it's hysterical.
Speaker 2: And Ramsey's butt Shagan got him going, and that is
her actual real life husband. I wanted to bring up
Michael Talbot to you. He plays Officer Morgan. So at
the beginning of the movie, there's a really funny scene
looks like Chips California Highway Patrol. They're riding their motorcycles
because they're going to a fight, and a semi comes
up behind him and he pulls his horn and it
you can tell it scares the crap out of those guys,
like legit scares them. Yes, Michael Talbot plays Officer Morgan.
He's Swytech on Miami Vice. Oh wow, there's like Crockett
and Tubs and then there's swy Tech and Zito. They're
kind of the backup guys.
Speaker 1: So is he the guy who you see again at
the very end of the movie Clyde onward. Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: He gets decked by Clyde at the very end of their.
Speaker 1: How did we go through the entire first episode and
not say right, turn Clyde?
Speaker 2: We did it because it wasn't in every which way
but loose.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? I know right that incredibly fam
miss line was not in the first movie. It did
not come along until the second movie. And once again
they took that comedy up a notch and knocked all
those guys down like Domino's h I was freaking hysterical.
Speaker 2: If you've never seen either of these two movies, I
would say there's at least a decent chance that you've
heard the term right Turn, Clyde.
Speaker 1: Right Turn and Clyde.
Speaker 2: By the way, my daughter was walking through the room
and she could care less about movies from before she
was born, right, But I said, no, wait, you gotta
watch this part. The motorcycle gang pulls up. They're giving
Filo Betto a hard time. Yeah, you know what we're
gonna do to you, Filo. You know all this, And
and finally he's had enough and he's like whatever, right
turn Clyde, and the monkey goes and he punches Chola
and then they all Domino over and Ava thought it
was hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's great. I tried to watch this movie with Caleb. Yeah,
we get to that part and I'm like giddy, I'm
ready and all of a sudd and Caleb's like, you're
flipping them off and you're talking through it. Why are
you talking through He's like what. I'm like, dude, you
missed it.
Speaker 2: Oh he messed it up.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I had rewind and on the rewind, it's
not as funny. That's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, do you I've got a couple of funny
moments that I want to talk to you about. I've
actually also got a couple of serious moments that I
want to talk to you about. And I think the
balance of these two things is what really works in
this movie. Okay, So at the beginning of the movie,
Clint Eastwood is in this bare knuckled brawler fight with
the guy who beat up all the Marines, right, and
they have this running joke where he's beat all the
Marines and Clint's like, I ain't a marine. And so
there's this great fight going on. The guy is so sunburned,
Like every time I watch the movie, I'm like, dude,
you're so sunburned. Help this dude out with some sunblock.
But during the fight, I mean, it's serious, he's trying,
you know. They're beating each other up and there's a
couple of girls in their cheering yay and they're hopping
up and down and Clint gets distracted because their mob's
are bouncing up and down and he gets decked.
Speaker 1: It was the seventies, they were not a fan of
bras back and then no, they weren't.
Speaker 2: And while this is going on, Clyde is roaming around
and he gets into a cop car and takes the dump,
takes a dumb in the cop car. So just that
scene just really worked for me. Right, it's funny. Then
you've got Chola saying the great lines like the whole
time and why mey lord.
Speaker 3: Lord, I mean you made other men out of clay Mine.
Speaker 1: When the bikers show up after they have been detarred, we.
Speaker 2: Got to talk about the tar scene, but I mean
that whole scene is brilliant.
Speaker 1: I mean it beats the chase scene from the first movie,
which was not bad, but it definitely takes all.
Speaker 2: It's just everything's better, right.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they go through the tar and they're in
the alleyway. They've got him out numbered getting and then
they all freeze.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they got tar pulls.
Speaker 1: All are has hardened and they all fall on each
other like statues. And then Bilo Betta does the right thing.
He takes him to the hospital and has them detarred.
And when they show up and they've got no hair
at all anymore, and so what they have to do
he has to pass out the wigs. I'm like this,
and I when I when I am eleven years old,
I'm watching this. I'm like, this is comedy, freaking old comedy.
Speaker 2: Guilt well, and as an adult, when they they all
freeze up because they got tar all over themselves and
they fall over and Chola is face down and he
keeps saying, you're paying for that betto it's very Yosemite,
Samloe right right, And in fact, there's a lot of
sort of looney tunes and references I think in this movie.
But and Filo says to lynn Linn Halsey Taylor can't
leave him here. The dogs a piss on him. Ain't
fair to the dogs. And then you don't pay for
that battle.
Speaker 1: We mentioned our last episode that the ape on this one,
the Orangutang, is a different actor than the original Clyde.
Original Clyde was an ape named Manus or Manis manus H,
an ape named Manis and this one is an ape
named Buddha. Yes, and apparently Buddha had been involved in
a movie where he would he had been trained to wrestle,
And so Sondra Locke had no scenes with Clyde in
the first movie, but she had a bunch of scenes
and a lot of them involved him kissing her. And
she said he would grab me by the back of
the neck for the kiss and when I tried to
pull away, he would put the wrestling move on me,
and I was getting a little panic.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are kissing. You don't understand you are kissing me.
The strip poker scenes with Fat Zach the Upside Down Jet,
there's a scene I heard Barry Corbyn talking about this.
It's like his first day working with Clint Eastwood, like
the first morning of the first day.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: And he's trailing him in a car because he's supposed
to be kind of spying on him, and I was jogging,
he's working out, and all of a sudden he whips around,
comes over and punches out the window. Okay, right, so
clinics Wood punches out the window and when he did,
he punched Barry Kordman in the face. And he still
had to keep going because he got this fake glass
and they can't. They don't have time for reshoots, they
you know, all that stuff. So he he yanks him
out of the car and he's like, were you crazy?
Speaker 1: You just push them?
Speaker 2: Let me see your hand, wait with your fringers. We
talked about that in our War Games episode. Do you
see the way he just yanked me out of What
are you doing? Stand and get back to jogging. That
whole state is great.
Speaker 1: It is fantastic. This is another thing that they did right.
And this one I think had to be inspirational for
Burt Reynolds movies to come because this is nineteen eighty right,
But they have this huge like everybody goes to this
central location, right, They're all like all points across the country.
People are coming to this light. Yeah, the little old
lady are coming to this fight. That black Widows are
coming to the fight. The Dallas Cowboys, Sorry that didn't
not the team. The cowboys from Dallas are coming back
to this fight. The Mafia members from New York are
coming to this fight. So you get this little town
that is completely overwhelmed by all of these different, very
caricature characters, which Cannonball Run is the exact same, Like
it's all kinds of these different characters. Yeah. So yeah,
I think is again brilliant, brilliant what they did with this.
Speaker 2: By the way, the town square of Jackson Hall had
to shut down for like a week in the middle
of June or July, which is their high season, and
there were some businesses that were a little bit unhappy
about that. Yeah, but one business in particular, where they
they crash through the Italian restaurant. They were like on
the brink of bankruptcy, and because of the success of
the movie, they were able to kind of gave them
a second life.
Speaker 1: Oh nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of serious moments I wanted to bring
up to you. Okay, So number one, we talked about
how Jack Wilson is tough and you're actually you're in
fear of this guy, right, He's sure. He's a killer,
he's a threat. He's killed two men that this year. Yeah,
well only one. Well yeah, but the other one from
the neck down, you know, right right, right right. Then
there's a moment where Clint actually teaches Clyde how to
date rape.
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty bad. Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Just poker in the butt with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty bad. Doesn't somebody else get end
up getting poked?
Speaker 2: Clyde pokes himself. Thought, Yeah, there's a scene where the
bad guys do this home invasion and Maw is like,
we're scared for ma, you know. Then Filo gets beat
up and Clyde has to like pull him from a
burning vehicle. Yeah, kind of saves his life. And so
there's there's serious moments, kind of drama.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have a little bit of drama
with your comedy or we'll.
Speaker 2: Get shot, you know. And then the end scene, we've
got to talk about the n scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we get to the end scene. Okay, I
realized that you've covered comedy moments already. Yes, but the
scene with the hotel room where Clyde has got his
girlfriend in one room, yes, and he's showing off for her, yes,
And Filo has got Linn Halsey Taylor and the other
one and she's like, I wish you'd show off for me.
And so he's hanging by the chandelier like there's no
way that some cheap motel room chandelier is going to
hold her face. But we'll go with it for this right.
Then you got Anne Ramsey and her husband over there
hula dancing. He tries to lift up the chair. Oh
my man, that was so brave what she did there.
And then you've got the hotel manager who is a.
Speaker 2: Peeping tom is.
Speaker 1: He's a peeping tom and Ma catches him. He gets
all amorous and she kicks him in the ball.
Speaker 2: She crushes his balls and then is like, what have
I done? The first one in twenty years? And then
she's like nurses him back to help because she wants
to get lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah she does, and then like and whistling.
Speaker 2: The next day she is, She's like, she's acting crazy.
She hasn't act this way since all. But then you
have that whole scene where they reenact the scene from ten,
the movie ten.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, that was horrified. It was absolutely that was
so funny.
Speaker 2: So you have Bo Derek running down the beach like
the movie ten, and they've superimposed moss face over her.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, man.
Speaker 1: Okay, So once again we've got another very early eighties soundtrack.
We got the country going strong here, and our title
song is by none other than mister Glenn Freaking Campbell,
the Ryanstone cowboy himself called any which way you can
and then you've got a whole soundtrack on this one
beers too you. Yeah, that might not be the best
the best one you go to, but you're the reason
God made Oklahoma was a single off of this and
it did fantastic. Yeah, You've got Whiskey Heaven by Fat
Him Yeah, by Fats Domino, I mean Fats Domino and
a cowboy hat. I can't beat it right now, Sondralock tortures.
This song called one Too Many Women in Your Life,
But that one was written by John Durrell and mister
Phil Everley himself of the Everly Brothers, which we've talked
about before because and Roses episode.
Speaker 2: Mister Phil Everly is Don Everly's brother, who is the
dad of Aaron Everly, who was.
Speaker 1: Let's switch out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, no one else the song the
one too Many Women in your Life? Yes, one that
you love and one you call your wife. I think
it's how the lyrics go. Yeah, oddly sort of interesting, right, yeah,
kind of close to home there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, speaking of that, I think I
read I think on the Wikipedia page for Clint Eastwood.
It says that he has at least nine kids. Like,
he's very private about how many kids he has, but
we know they're at least nine. Yeah, there may be
more and probably are.
Speaker 2: I would say highly likely that there are.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has been a movie star for
seventy years.
Speaker 2: You know who he never had a child with.
Speaker 1: Though, Sondra Locke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's not talk about Okay.
Speaker 2: By the way, I just want to drop this little
nugget to you. When they're staying in Jackson Hole, the
hotel manager gets a little amorous with Clyde, who's dressed
up in a nightgown.
Speaker 1: Right, it's up with that, right.
Speaker 2: It was so bizarre, all right, And Clyde like lifts
up his ninety or whatever and it's it's just weird,
but it's funny. Just a side note, he's actually looking
at a Playboy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That Playboy is from June nineteen eighty. Okay, you mentioned
how this movie was shot in the summer of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that June nineteen eighty magazine of Playboy is the
one that features Dorothy Stratton of Star eighty, Star eighty,
who was murdered by her boyfriend. Wow, so, oh my gosh,
there you go.
Speaker 1: Yep, Peter Bogdanovitch's girlfriend. Yes, there's a movie I never
want to discuss. By the way, if you wanted to
put Star eighty on your list, find a guest host
that's not me for that one's no thinks, no way. Okay, okay,
back to fun stuff. Yeah, okay, So first movie, most
profitable movie that Clint east would have ever made. Yep,
this movie first weekend came in at number one, Yes,
grossing eight million dollars. Yes. The second weekend, Yes, stayed
at number one and made ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: Really, it went up for the second weekend.
Speaker 1: It resulted are you ready for this? Yes? It resulted
in a record for the single day gross for Warner Brothers.
Guess what movie it beat? I don't know what. Do
you got? Superman?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: So it turns out Philo Beto can beat Superman. There
you go.
Speaker 2: By the way, they looked at Clint Eastwood to play
the part of Superman. Yeah, if memory serves credit him
in about one hundred other people, now then that's right,
including Al Pacino and Sylvester Slim. This movie was the
fifth highest grossing movie of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the.
Speaker 2: Four higher ones are, right, but I bet my paycheck
that Emprere Strikes Back was number one. Sure, another incredibly
successful movie for Clint Easwood. YEP, both of these movies.
When we talk about Clint Eastwood, these movies are kind
of forgotten. Nobody ever brings these up.
Speaker 1: They don't come up. I mean, you get the Cowboy movies,
you get the Dirty Harry movies, and you get the
movies that he's directed, but you don't get these. And
these are two of the most successful movies of all time,
let alone for him.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So are we a final judgment? Yet we are? We are? Okay.
I don't mind going first because I've tipped my hand ready.
They figured out everything that went wrong in the first one,
and they did it right in the second one. And
the first one was still great, So that meant yes,
I can see how it went up. I can see
how people went another sequel, This won't be as good.
First weekend, eight million dollars worth of folks showed up,
and then after the word of mouth of they did better,
they brought it home with this one. The comedy is better,
the filming is better, the timing is better, the villain
is there and he's better and he's not even a
villain really, So without question, any which way you can
beats out every which way but loose, and they're both
fantastic movies. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, in fact, the way we kind of started down
this road, you and I, this wasn't even really on
our schedule, but somehow we got into conversation about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about William Smith. When we were we
talked about him being in Rumblefish, Rumblefish and the Outsiders,
and I was like, this is the guy. This was
the guy who's the bad guy in the Clint Eastwood
every which way but loose, and you were like, no,
it was any which way you can. And I'm like, okay,
do you like that movie?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I love that Let's do it right. So yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: So for my final judgment, yes, I've already sipped my
hand as well. I totally agree with you. They took
the first movie like wise people, they analyzed what worked.
There were some funny moments with the Black Widows. The
Orangutang was funny. Clint has a presence on the screen
he's a movie star of the ages. Let's maximize that.
Let's put the romance in the back seat. Lyn Halsey
Taylor can come along. That's fine, but the focus is
not the romance. We've got action, We've got bad guys,
We've got a road movie. We've got this wacky convergence
in Jackson Hole right turn Clyde. It's at least twice
as good and probably three times as good as every
which way but lose. Wow, I'm spiking my football. Any
which way you can is the way better movie. And
I still I still love it, and it's so much fun.
I had a great time doing this.
Speaker 1: If you can only watch one of these movies, watch
any which way you can. You don't need to have
seen the first one to understand what's going on in
the second one at all. They do it right. This
time they start with the fight to let you know
who he is, and they end with a fight, and
this time again they do it right, and spoiler alert,
he wins. Yeah. But man, it's a good fight.
Speaker 2: One of the best, one of the best, as as
fat Zach says, it's one of the best fights I've
ever seen in the mine tirely so absolutely love it.
By the way, every which way but Loose is available
on HBO Max right now, any which way you can.
I had to get from my library. It was really
tough to get it.
Speaker 1: I think I get it off of Prime, did you Okay?
I got Amazon Prime. Okay, it's worth the four bucks.
Go watch this movie for sure. A lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, what we got next week?
Speaker 1: We have got the Great Outdoors. Yes, and then from
nineteen eighty three talk about Beverly DiAngelo and her wonderful body.
We have got National AMPLI Vacation to Vacation movies celebrating
their thirty fifth and fortieth anniversaries this year. I can't wait.
And you know, shoot, Dan Aykroyd, John Canny, Chevy Chase
signed me Freaking.
Speaker 2: Up absolutely both written by John Hughes. Yeah, a lot
of people don't know that it's crazy. We're gonna have
a great time with that. That is next week. Come
back next week and join us for a vacation down
holiday Road.