Freebie and the Bean Page #12

Synopsis: Freebie and Bean, two San Francisco police detectives, have one goal in life: to bring down Red Meyers, a local hijacking boss. After many fruitless months they finally collect an important piece of evidence. However, before they can get an arrest warrant, they hear the news of the hitman being hired to kill Meyers.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Richard Rush
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
1974
113 min
$8,300
Website
427 Views


the numbers game

and there's no-class,

dumb, Hick cop

thinks he's smarter

than Red Meyers.

Go back to your garbage cans.

You'd still be there

looking if not for me.

Well, who do you think stuffed

that stuff in the garbage

you putz?

(male announcer)

'Five yards

for defensive holding'

'and it's first and goal.'

Three to five.

Three to five!

You call that

three to five?

That's forever!

Mildred, I, I love you.

Please, who could know?

You promised me!

'Three to five

with time off!'

Mildred..

Mildred, I, I wish..

I wish it could have been me

instead of him!

I wish it was!

Mildred!

Who could know

about his heart?

(male announcer)

'James Roberts for the TD!'

Everything okay, Lieutenant?

You tell her to put

the paper in the garbage?

Why?

You know, uh..

You're a son of a b*tch.

I was gonna marry her.

Why is everybody mad at me?

I didn't want him

to get hurt. I promised her.

But make her understand that,

you know what I mean?

You don't know what I mean.

I don't know what I mean.

(male announcer)

'That makes it 1 7-nothing.'

- Which one's this?

- This is the cop.

[crowd roaring]

You okay?

[instrumental music]

I'm hungry.

Huh? What?

I've got to have a taco.

I've got to have a taco.

- ls this your idea of a joke?

- What?

- This is..

- What are you saying?

Is that your idea of a joke?

- What are you talking about?

- You brainless son of a b*tch.

You almost got me killed

back there! You know that?

- What?

- Look at my face.

Look at my arm!

Look what you did to me.

I didn't do nothing!

I wasn't even there!

You're never there

when I need you son of a b*tch!

- Don't talk to me like that!

- You're an a**hole!

(male #1 9)

'I can't steer!'

[yelling]

(Freebie)

Ah, watch my arm, will you?

Oh! Are you trying

to kill me?

You Mexican a**hole!

- I almost lost my arm!

- Can't take a joke!

[yelling]

You and me baby

we got something going

There ain't nothin'

we can't do

Like honey and bees

we go together

Me and you

[instrumental music]

[music continues]

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Robert Kaufman

Robert Kaufman (March 22, 1931 – November 21, 1991) was an American screenwriter, film producer and television writer known for such films and series as Getting Straight, Love at First Bite, She's Out of Control, Divorce American Style, The Cool Ones, Freebie and the Bean, How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, The Monkees, and The Ugliest Girl in Town. more…

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