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Released
1980 · FILM

Any Which Way You Can

Retired trucker‑turned‑bare‑knuckle boxer Philo Beddoe aims to cash in one last fight and finally walk away, but the Mafia forces a high‑stakes showdown while a vengeful neo‑Nazi biker gang—and his mischievous orangutan sidekick— threaten to derail everything.

Get it with Clint and Clyde

Directed by
Runtime
115 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Philo participates in a bare-knuckle fight, as he often does, in order to earn more money than he can from his car repair business. He plans to retire, but when the Mafia arrange another fight, he is pressured into taking part. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan named Clyde also become involved, adding to the chaos.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ron SpangShot by David WorthDesigned by William J Creber

Box Office

1980 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$70.7M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$70.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mit Vollgas nach San Fernandode
  • Ça va cognerfr
  • Fai come ti pareit

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