Watch Freebie And The Bean (1974) Free Online

Release Date: 1974

Cast: Valerie Harper, Alex Rocco, Christopher Morley, Jack Kruschen, Alan Arkin, Paul Koslo, John Garwood, Loretta Swit, Linda Marsh, James Caan, Mike Kellin

Categories: Movies, Buddy film, Adventure, Action Comedy, Action, Comedy

Freebie and the Bean is a 1974 action-comedy film about two San Francisco police detectives who have one goal in life, bringing down a local hijacking boss. The picture, a precursor to the buddy cop film genre popularized a decade Harper was nominated for the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year. The film was directed by Richard Rush. Stanley Kubrick called Freebie and the Bean the best film of 1974. Arkin and Caan would not appear in another movie together again until the 2008 film adaptation of Get Smart. Freebie and Bean are detectives with the San Francisco police. While distracted... MORE

Freebie and the Bean is a 1974 action-comedy film about two San Francisco police detectives who have one goal in life, bringing down a local hijacking boss. The picture, a precursor to the buddy cop film genre popularized a decade Harper was nominated for the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year. The film was directed by Richard Rush. Stanley Kubrick called Freebie and the Bean the best film of 1974. Arkin and Caan would not appear in another movie together again until the 2008 film adaptation of Get Smart. Freebie and Bean are detectives with the San Francisco police. While distracted by his suspicions that his wife is having affair, Bean and his partner investigate racketeer Red Meyers, only to learn that a hit man is after Meyers as well. Key scenes were shot on location in early 1973 in San Francisco at Candlestick Park, then home of the Major League Baseball San Francisco Giants, and now the home of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers. One chase sequence was filmed on the (now-demolished) Embarcadero Freeway, which ends with Caan and Arkin's car crashing into an apartment building next to the freeway. After the car lands in an elderly couple's bedroom as they LESS