Any Which Way You Can (1980) on Netflix
Philo Beddoe still earns money in underground bare-knuckle fights, then decides to retire. Handlers backed by the Mafia arrange a match for him against Jack Wilson, an East Coast champion.
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Plot summary
Philo Beddoe still earns money in underground bare-knuckle fights and decides to retire when he realizes he has begun to enjoy the pain. He lives with Clyde, an orangutan, on the property of his friend Orville, where Orville's mother also lives. One evening he finds Lynn Halsey-Taylor, his former girlfriend and a country-western singer, performing at his favorite bar; she apologizes and they become a couple again. The Black Widows, the biker gang that holds a grudge against Philo, come back. On the East Coast, Jack Wilson blends martial arts with boxing and sits at the top of the bare-knuckle circuit, and a handler concludes that a fight between Philo and Wilson would be the biggest draw in the sport's history. Philo agrees to it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Buddha, the younger orangutan who replaced Manis as Clyde, was clubbed to death with an axe handle by his head trainer after stealing doughnuts on the set, according to witnesses recounted in Jane Goodall and Dale Peterson's book Visions of Caliban; no action was taken, because no U.S. laws then required humane treatment of primates.
- The film set a record single-day gross for a Warner Bros. film on a Saturday, taking $3,861,561 and beating the record set by Superman.
