Every Which Way But Loose. Clint Eastwood is a bare-knuckle fighter with an orangutan for a best friend. In between romancing a singer (Sondra Locke) who may not be everything she appears, he manages to antagonise both an obnoxious local cop and perhaps the most hopeless bikie gang ever committed to film... Although (along with its sequel Any Which Way You Can) something of a childhood favourite I haven't seen this late 70s knockabout action comedy for decades, so I was rather pleased to find it holds up as a very entertaining and funny film. Clyde the Orangutan probably steals the film, of course, though he gets strong competition from Ruth Gordon as Clint's cantankerous, foul-mouthed old Ma, who knows how to deal with bikers!
Great fun.
