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Freebie and the Bean (1974)

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Average rating: (58%)
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3.0
 
Starring: James Caan | Alan Arkin | Loretta Swift | Alex Rocco | Valerie Harper | John Garwood
Director: Richard Rush
Studio: Warner Bros
Certificate: TBC
User collections: Late show favourites - Still and Sugarloaf Cambridge
Genres: Action/Adventure
Languages: English
Released: unknown

Brief synopsis of Freebie and the Bean

Great 70s buddy cop film featuring mind boggling car chases. From the director of Stuntman.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5
Radio Times

An early variation on the buddy cops routine that is dominated by a series of spectacular car crashes as San Francisco cops James Caan and Alan Arkin pursue mobster Jack Kruschen. Hugely tasteless (there are a flurry of racist jokes from Caan about Arkin's Mexican origins), this is a film where most of the characters are treated with contempt, but director Richard Rush puts so much energetic inventiveness into the turbulence you're almost convinced he doesn't mean it.

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Violent comedy melodrama with a high mortality rate, amoral outlook, and the usual seventies reliance on incoherent plot, bumbled dialogue and excessive background noise. Occasionally funny all the same.

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Rated - 5 starsBriiliant acting and some awsomes stunts for the year

RUSSELL WINTLE from gloucester , 26/02/2006

Saw this on late night T.V and thought a thirty year old movie would put me to sleep, but this is almost lethal wepon without the violence. A proper buddy buddy movie, and I was surprised at the amount of car stunts and chases, for an older movie. The comedy and banter were very amusing and the the actors were obviously having a ball. Definatly a forerunner to thise 80's buddy movies.

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