9 Movie Animals Who Outperformed Their Human Masters

6. Manis in Every Which Way But Loose

Clint Eastwood once co-starred in a road trip movie with an orangutan. In the film, they are in search of Eastwood's lost love. Along the way, they earn the enmity of a biker gang and the police. It ends with a boxing match between Eastwood and a sixty-year-old man. No, this was not a mass hallucination. This was one of the most stunningly successful films ever made. And it was, thankfully, an intentional comedy. Although frankly, all they had to do was have Eastwood act opposite an orangutan, while playing everything else completely straight, and it would have been automatic gold. Said Eastwood of his co-star: he "was one of the most natural actors I ever worked with!" And there you have it.