Freebie and the Bean

...in music of the 1920s and '30s. Q: Do you have any idea as to what or who is holding up the DVD release of the 1974 buddy cop film Freebie and the Bean? A: The movie, which starred Alan Arkin and James Caan, has been released by...

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...would promote concerts and plays at an early age. He first got the film bug when working as a bit player in Richard Rush's slapstick cop drama Freebie and the Bean starring James Caan and Alan Arkin. After high school in San Mateo, CA.,...

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...also captures a sweet and loving family unit headed by Alex Rocco who usually plays Italian tough guys in films like THE GODFATHER or FREEBIE AND THE BEAN. I particularly like the grandparents, first generation Italians who are always arguing...

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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 later,...

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...backroom warrens. They all seem to be festering in the same organism: You could imagine Michael Lerner's porn shop in Busting paying off Freebie and the Bean's honcho Jack Kruschen, who'd have The Stone Killer's raggy scarecrow Paul Koslo buy...

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...of uninhibited genre freak-outs. William Lustig, the director of "Maniac Cop," curates a week of curios, including "Rolling Thunder," "Freebie and the Bean," and "The Outfit. " (212-505-5181.) The hip-hop innovators De La Soul return to...

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...that only historians and arftform geeks recognize the names. But there are lost treasures to be found among the ruins, offerings like Freebie and the Bean and Solider in the Rain that, while dated, deliver the kind of unquestionable quality...

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...credited roles were in 1979. Marsh in a 1968 episode of Mannix; on Broadway in 1964. Marsh's few film appearances included Che! and Freebie and the Bean. In 1970 she starred in a notorious unreleased X-rated film called ''Stop! '' that...

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...films - "Hell's Angels '69" and this one. Both are fun in their own way, but "Hells Angels on Wheels" has Jack Nicholson on the bike and "Freebie and the Bean" director Richard Rush behind the camera. The Wild Angels (1966): Roger...

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