🐒 The Legend of Philo Beddoe and Clyde: A Look Back at "Every Which Way But Loose"
Directed by James Fargo, the 1978 film follows (Eastwood), an easygoing truck driver from the San Fernando Valley who makes extra cash as a legendary bare-knuckle brawler. Philo lives a relatively simple life with his brother and manager, Orville (played by the brilliant character actor Geoffrey Lewis), and his best friend: a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde.
In the late 1970s, Clint Eastwood was the undisputed king of gritty cinematic machismo. He had cemented his legacy through ruthless, squinty-eyed antiheroes in Spaghetti Westerns and the hard-nosed police procedural Dirty Harry . So, when he announced his next project would be a goofy, blue-collar action-comedy co-starring a beer-drinking orangutan, the film industry was collectively baffled. Agents and advisors begged him not to do it, fearing it would ruin his legendary career. Eastwood flipped them the bird and made it anyway. The Plot: Fists, Fur, and Country Music
🐒 The Legend of Philo Beddoe and Clyde: A Look Back at "Every Which Way But Loose"
Directed by James Fargo, the 1978 film follows (Eastwood), an easygoing truck driver from the San Fernando Valley who makes extra cash as a legendary bare-knuckle brawler. Philo lives a relatively simple life with his brother and manager, Orville (played by the brilliant character actor Geoffrey Lewis), and his best friend: a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde.
In the late 1970s, Clint Eastwood was the undisputed king of gritty cinematic machismo. He had cemented his legacy through ruthless, squinty-eyed antiheroes in Spaghetti Westerns and the hard-nosed police procedural Dirty Harry . So, when he announced his next project would be a goofy, blue-collar action-comedy co-starring a beer-drinking orangutan, the film industry was collectively baffled. Agents and advisors begged him not to do it, fearing it would ruin his legendary career. Eastwood flipped them the bird and made it anyway. The Plot: Fists, Fur, and Country Music
