Clint Eastwood by critics. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" wrote that film was "...the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while", and praised Eastwood's directing, intricately juxtaposing the old West and the new West. Later that year, Eastwood starred in "Any Which Way You Can", the sequel to "Every Which Way But Loose". The film received a number of bad reviews from critics, although Maslin described it as "funnier and even better than its predecessor". Released over the Christmas season of 1980, "Any Which Way You Can" was a major box office success and ranked among the
Clint Eastwood in the 1970s that Eastwood received second billing for a film. In the World War II movie "Kelly's Heroes", Eastwood stars as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in bullion from the Nazis. It was the last non-Malpaso film that Clint appeared in. The climax to the film echoes that of his Dollars films when he advances in lockstep on a German Tiger tank on the street of a small European town, with a Morricone-esque soundtrack by Lalo Schifrin. In the winter of 1969-70, Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, "The Beguiled". Jennings Lang, a Hollywood executive