FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (1974) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Richard Rush
Alan Arkin, James Caan, Jack Kruschen,
Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper, Alex Rocco,
Christopher Morley, Paul Koslo, Mike Kellin
"Dirty Harry" meets "The Blues Brothers" in a slapstick, car-wreck action thriller about a pair of San Francisco police detectives assigned to keep a numbers boss alive over the Super Bowl weekend. Arkin and Caan make a good, odd-couple team. The movie's fast and funny and not always politically correct. The level of vehicular mayhem is insane.
James Caan
(1940-2022)
