James Caan and Alan Arkin in the title roles. We never hear their real names. A couple of very violent San Francisco detectives who keep beating information out of people. An action-comedy that wasn't really funny. Their incessant banter wears thin and most of the "jokes" were just car accidents. Does show the danger car chases pose to innocent by-standers which you didn't really get watching Bullitt.
Detectives Freebie and Bean are after a wealthy hoodlum running a hijacking ring. They find themselves protecting him when they learn there's a contract out on him.
I watched this on HBO when I was kid, and I for one liked the transvestite hitman (Christopher Morley who passed away this year). Kung Fu was still on the air but I had grown weary of David Carradine's fake martial arts. I liked how Morely effortlessly battered James Caan with karate in a women's restroom. It ends with Caan shooting him more times than necessary which was taken as a violently anti-trans thing, which it was, but that didn't occur to me when I was 13.
With Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper just as they got big on TV.
Free on Movieland.Tv. For $3.99 elsewhere.
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