We watched this for family movie night, and Sheri and I both agree we recall it being much better than what it was this time around. Ma (Ruth Gordon) comes off as being obnoxious rather than funny. In fact that is the problem with the movie, they are trying a bit too hard to be funny. However Phillo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood), and the chimpanzee and the interaction with the Cholla (John Quade) and the Black Widows really are funny. Lynn Halsey Taylor (Sondra Locke) also does very well. In this movie the brother, Orville (Geoffrey Lewis) has a girlfriend, Echo (Beverly D'Angelo) and their relationship is cute.
An enjoyable movie about street fighting as a profession. The other fighter is Tank Murdock (Walter Barnes) and the fight scenes are well done.
