Any Which Way You Can (1980)

1980 film by Buddy Van Horn

Released

1980

Country

United States

Language

English

Genre

Boxing film

Director

Buddy Van Horn

Screenplay

Stanford Sherman

Producer

Robert Daley

Music

Glen Campbell

Cinematography

David Worth

Editing

Ron Spang

Starring

Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Guardino, Ruth Gordon, Barry Corbin, William Smith, John Quade

Running time

116 minutes

Production company

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Malpaso Productions

Distributor

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix

Set in

California

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Buddy Van Horn in his feature directorial debut and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles. The film is the sequel to the 1978 hit comedy Every Which Way but Loose. 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.

Cast

• Clint Eastwood
• Sondra Locke
• Geoffrey Lewis
• Harry Guardino
• Ruth Gordon
• Barry Corbin
• William Smith
• John Quade
• Roy Jenson
• Bill McKinney
• William O'Connell
• Dan Vadis
• George Murdock
• Anne Ramsey
• Al Ruscio
• Fats Domino

Series

• Preceded by: Every Which Way but Loose

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q1939405 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.