Every Which Way but Loose

Every Which Way but Loose (1978) is a comedy you can watch online on iFILM, and it shows a side of Clint Eastwood few expected. He plays Philo Beddoe, an easygoing trucker who happens to be the best bare-knuckle brawler west of the Rockies. His roommate and sidekick? An orangutan named Clyde.

Philo makes his money in back-alley fights and asks little of life beyond beer and good company — until he falls hard for Lynn Halsey-Taylor, a flighty country singer played by Sondra Locke. She leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Trailing behind: a hapless biker gang called the Black Widows, two dim cops, and a legendary scrapper named Tank Murdock.

Directed by James Fargo, the film became one of the biggest box-office hits of Eastwood's whole career and stunned anyone who knew him only from grim Westerns. The humor is rowdy, the fists fly, and Clyde steals every scene he's in. Pure goofy fun. Stream Every Which Way but Loose online on iFILM.