Every Which Way But Loose

Eastwood was warned by his associates not to make this picture, but he made it anyway, and his share of the profits are reputedly in excess of $15,000,000! So much for associates. Eastwood here is a trucker who picks up money by challenging the toughest men in every area to bare-knuckle bouts. In an early match he's won a huge, 11-year-old orangutan (Clyde) that he now travels with. His other driving partner is thick-witted Lewis. On a pub-crawling evening, they meet Locke, a C & W singer Eastwood falls for (he did in real life too--using her in many movies, much to the detriment of the movies). He thinks that the two of them can establish a life together, but she ...