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Freebie and the Bean
Freebie and the Bean is a 1974 American buddy cop action comedy film about two off-beat police detectives who wreak havoc in San Francisco attempting to bring down a local organized crime boss. The picture, a precursor to the buddy cop film genre popularized a decade later, stars James Caan, Alan Arkin, Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper. Harper was nominated for the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for playing the Hispanic wife of Alan Arkin. The film was directed by Richard Rush.
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- Hunter's Point was used as a backdrop in the 2004 Spike Lee film, "Sucker Free City".
- The Bayview's Candlestick Park was also home to the location for the climactic scene in the 1962 thriller "Experiment in Terror".
- The 1974 Richard Rush comedy "Freebie and the Bean" was also filmed at Candlestick Park in Bayview.
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