Any Which Way You Can - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[carla]

The fifth of six movies made by real-life couple Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke.

[phyllis]

The production company at first wanted to use the Wyoming Highway Patrol car and their uniforms for the movie scene when the motorcycle gang first arrives in Wyoming, but the state refused. The Teton County Sheriff's office was quick to happily offer their car and uniforms for the actors for the shot. The scenes featuring the Jackson Police Department at the barn is also the department actual car on loan, as well as the uniforms. The cops are actors however.

[stephanie]

Debut movie as a director for stuntman and Second Unit Director Buddy Van Horn.

[toni]

In this movie and included on the soundtrack, Clint Eastwood sang a duet with the legendary Ray Charles, titled "Beers to You".

[addison]

One of Clint Eastwood's most successful movies at the box-office. So was the movie's precursor Every Which Way but Loose (1978). Both movies, when adjusted for inflation into constant dollars, are still big box-office titles, this movie being ranked in the Top 200 grossing movies of all-time.

[gabriel]

Glen Campbell's title song "Any Which Way You Can" was successful, and assisted the promotion of this movie on country radio.

[norma]

Glen Campbell: As a singer at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.

[michele]

The movie later on had a major re-release on a double-bill with its predecessor Every Which Way but Loose (1978).

[ella]

The Playboy Magazine that the motel clerk is looking at is the June 1980 issue featuring Dorothy Stratten.

[norma]

As the fight begins, Clint is thrown into a restaurant in Jackson where he breaks his hand. This restaurant was Anthony's Italian, which was closed in bank foreclosure and back taxes. It was later re-opened with all of the set dressing and props left in place by the production company. It became a local attraction for awhile.

[sara]

"Popi", the orangutan who played Clyde's girlfriend, now lives at the same ape sanctuary as Michael Jackson's chimpanzee, Bubbles, along with many other retired show business apes.

[frances]

In the big fight scene, kids ( Eastwoods? ) can be seen wearing Broncos Billy T shirts, from the Eastwood film made right before this one.

[manuel]

Buddy Joe Hooker: Uncredited, the stuntman as a bar fighter.

[ronnie]

While the Jackson Airport was used for some exterior establishing shots, most of the scenes of the jet exiting the airport and people leaving the airport running down the tarmac to the highway was shot in California. The "jet" shown coasting to a stop in downtown Jackson was simply a front-end shell on wheels with people exiting from steps on the other side.

[jessica]

The Playboy centerfold that Clyde is requesting as his next girlfriend in the final scene is Teri Peterson, Playboy's Playmate of July 1980.

[kenneth]

The bar shown at the beginning of the movie was the actual "Palomino Club" on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, California. The inside scenes were the actual inside of the club.

[violet]

While not a fan of this movie, critic Roger Ebert "found it hard not to feel a grudging affection for it".

[aaron]

Per Sondra Locke's autobiography, Clint Eastwood took megadoses of vitamins and ate boiled potatoes like popcorn to bulk up for his role as a street boxer.

[michele]

Just before the scene where the Black Widows are knocked out by Clyde's "right turn", Clint refers to Clyde as "Meathead". This was the same name his character "Dirty" Harry Callahan named his dog in Sudden Impact (1983).