Clint Eastwood in the 1980s movie "Any Which Way You Can", one of the two hit movies Eastwood made with co-star Clyde the orangutan. Later on, he drives a Dark Maple Red Metallic 1980 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency 4-door sedan. In 1982, Eastwood also directed, produced and starred in the Cold War-themed "Firefox", based on a 1977 novel with the same name by British novelist Craig Thomas. Eastwood directed and starred in "Honkytonk Man", based on the novel by Clancy Carlile about an aspiring country music singer named Red Stovall, set during the Great Depression. Barry Corbin, who played Red's father in "Honkytonk Man", with Clint
Clint Eastwood in the 1980s best westerns in a long, long time". Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" said, "This year (1985) will go down in film history as the moment Clint Eastwood finally earned respect as an artist". In 1986, Eastwood starred in the military drama "Heartbreak Ridge", about the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies, with a portion of the movie filmed on the island itself. It co-starred Marsha Mason. However, the title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War, based around Eastwood's character of Tom Highway, an ageing United States Marine Gunnery Sergeant and Korean War veteran,