Recently watched on TCM, hadn't seen a complete viewing since back in college, with a lovely date, if I remember correctly. I had forgotten how many cars were demolished in this buddy cop flick. Jimmy Caan, a big deal at the time after "The Godfather" is paired with the alwys reliable Alan Arkin as a pair of SF Vice cops who in their pursuit of some numbers kingpin manage to put hundreds of innocent civilians in danger with a series of wild car chases on The Streets of San Francisco. Good place for that kind of thing and watching it almost 50 years later it's a nice time capsule, plenty of cool looking old cars from the 50's and early 60's were no doubt purchased cheaply for destruction. Caan and Arkin are good together in a completely un-PC script. A pair of popular TV actresses of the time, Loretta Swit of MASH and Valerie Harper of "Rhoda" have brief parts that have nothing to do with the plot. Oh yeah, 2 bad guys get shot in public restrooms-you'd think the script author could have found only done one potty killing.
Review of Freebie and the Bean
