Any Which Way You Can You Can" was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1980. The film has had total gross receipts of $70,687,344 in North America. Any Which Way You Can Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film, starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles. It was directed by Buddy Van Horn. The film is the sequel to the 1978 hit comedy "Every Which Way but Loose". Two years after throwing his fight with Tank Murdock, Philo Beddoe is still fighting in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches to make money on the
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s James Coburn and Ty Hardin were considered for the main role. When none of them accepted, the producers drew up a list of lesser-known American actors and asked Richard Harrison for his input. He suggested Eastwood because he knew the Rawhide actor could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing "Fistful of Dollars", and recommending Clint for the part". While Leone wrote that he was initially distracted by Eastwood, after Fleming turned the role down, Sartori urged him to rewatch the episode and to concentrate on Eastwood instead. Leone asked Irving