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Globe Thursday, December 26, 1974 and now at Cinema 57 "THE BEST NEWS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON! -Judith Crist, New York Magazine "A LITHE, JOYFUL, POIGNANT MUSICAL!" -Jay Cocks, Time Magazine "IRREPRESSIBLE Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan "THE SCORE OF 'THE LITTLE PRINCE' ISASHEER DELIGHT!" Vincent Canby, New York Times "HERE'S A FILM THAT ADULTS CAN ALSO ENJOY f5-. THoIlisAlpert; Saturday Beview) 'World A STANLEY grass with "friends'' Freebie artf the (Bean) are decidedly less effective. His performers are all expert. Arkin, especially, is manic but controlled; Caan is more exaggerated, even though he appears to be carving a career out of playing such obsessed characters. But the technology, ironically for this anti-human movie, is really the head-liner.

Laslo Kovacs, who effected the lustrous photography, is one craftsman who should work more often. And the stuntmen, who. under the supervision of Chuck Bail, must have worked overtime to devise some of the most thrilling, inventive, if overlong, chase sequences yet recorded on celluloid, are particularly the stars. They deserve a special Academy Award, while the movie, as an entirety, deserves a legal summons from the ACLU. LERNER AND LOEWE'S THE IJTTLE PRINCE RichardKileyf.

BobFpsseSr Steven Warner Geiie WSder "i Produced and Directed by STANLEY PONEN Anocutc Producer A Jowph Taiulet Screenplayand Lyrics by -Musicby ALAN JAY LER.NER FREDERICK LOEVVE Bajfd on the itory THE LITTLE PRINCE" by Antome dcSairu-Exupery DONEN FILM OF Tchnkolor VA1UBLE ON ABC Wt CORDS PLAYING SHOWCASE I WOBURN RT.128nur93 SAUCUS CINEMA SHOWCASE DEDHAM RT. lit 128 328-4955 933-5330 321-1345 THEATERS EDITION OF i SOHQTHACK ALBUM NOW BOSTON GARY 131 STUART ST. 543-7040 rFRAMINGHAMl CINEMA 235-8020 SUBURBAN SUBURBAN Braintrte, Brockton, Hanover, Burlington, Cambridge, Peabody, Saugvu, Stoneham, Framingham, Ipswich Cleveland Circle, Lawrence, Woburn, Dedham Revere, Neponset, VFW Parkway, North Reading iNfsi ewiaiA eoapHMMTiM S1-25HI P.M.ctt8torTCINEMAS(.r) "LATEST SPECIAL CHILDREN'S SHOW Thurs. thru 6Mr7 HANOV1S HiQQ SUSUNOTOti. WALTHAAI A 8TOWIHAW 1 .00 Sj 'FRONT PAGE' ISA JOB WELL SHARR FAST, CRACKLING VERSION BY BILLY Boston Evening 'Freebie By Fatrick McGilligan Glol)e Staff 1 The next cycle in the cops-and-robbers genre is by "Freebie the Bean," currently at the Cinema 57, in which the buddy trend in movies 4nieets the fascist-cop trend and, in that fated conver- i gence, hundreds of people are bludgeoned for laughs.

"Dirty Harry," at least, had pretensions, but 1 "Freebie and the Bean" is one of the most reprehen- i sible film-yarns ever to subvert the original designs of the Keystone Kops. Also, it is, at mo- ments, a talented and hilarious movie, which simply confounds the muddle. The story a "love story," saith the advertisements, in a pronouncement that is possibly in- i tended to save future generations of film critics the bother of trying to perceive the movie's obvious homosexual undercurrent revolves around the havoc-wrecking efforts of two bumbling officers to stave off the assassination I of a mafioso-type for a weekend, so that airtight indictment papers can.be i served on the bigwig thug on Monday morning. These two police agents, members of the L.A. "intelligence squad," break more laws than they ac- i' uphold in their conniving, bullying, car- i speeding rush to duty.

James Caan is "Freebie," a gun-crazy, speed-crazy bull whose lunk-headed pursuit tactics invariably cause the whole-. sale injury of innocent by-' Btanders, and Alan Arkin is "Bean," a maritally-i troubled Latino (lots of superfluous "wetback" jokes here) who is less en-i thused about velocity but equally adept at mistaking common citizens for com-i mon criminals. Also on hand, for brief but winning sequences, is Valerie Harper, better knows as TVs "Rhoda," as Bean's exasperated Spanish-accented' wife, who must continually explain her whereabouts to a paranoid husband who is himself never at home, i And, in the minor roles, ranging from an incredu B.C. chorale to The Boston College Chorale will visit Rome for seven days giving several concerts under the direction of Dr. C.

Alexander Peloquin, the university's composer in residence. On Jan. 2, the 115-voice chorale 59 women and 56 men will fly from Boston and perform in Rome Jan. 5, official opening of the Holy Year, 1975. The program, to be sung in the Church of Santa Susanna, the American congregation in Rome, will in Peloquin's own compo 44 I mSSm 1 lllLfti jlHtAltTaflCsMAftl 215-som WAIT eaw DtSNEY eKCIlW ia epruiffa Ay anaiTTaiajaTV 1 'fl pBiaHPca-S4eoos ttfto --3 rt I A slick job." KEVIN KELLY BOSTON.

GLOBE mL THEATERS EOOIE ALBERT (H IIZTKaitS NO PAUIS-NO IAAOAIN MATS. MAN WITH I0ND SSL THE 80L0EN8UH" NO SAIOAJN MATS. tarn "T1 the 80L0EN BUN" pg NO PASSIS-NO SAIOAIN MATINII 'jjj? ia-ui nmcsr BeMOUINE Jimaai im SSSL VfcL 8:15 THE LjTlXE HUNCE rl HaTtltOVM h- iitr 1 I'Nlw 599-1110 c. SJJW RAtMTItfZEt rjBk An el NEW Smhj, Wt-LlYm S3 JJ iviiLer.iiAU N5r-aam A Blur WILDER fllM-sMrSr THE FROrJT PaICE THE HAPPY ONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS lous police superior to a gargantuan Texan to a hippie hireling, are a throng of eccentric, sharply-etched characters. What offsets the movie, though, is its utter and callous disregard for people, a quality that shines in nearly every single, amazingly, brutal scene.

"Freebie and the Bean" revels in sequences such as: A strapping braggodo-cio challenges "Bean" to a fistfight and, after he calmly unlocks the big fellow's handcuffs, "Bean" wallops him with his hidden truncheon; the duo "execute" Michigan Phil, a gangland figure, with a spray of bullets, as the sits in. a bathroom stall in a fowling alley. -When "Freebie" is fre netically chasing a stolen car, the two battered autos (pursued and pursuer) round a corner and careen, unexpectedly and astoun-dingly, into a parade of musicians and majorettes on tap for the Tournament of Roses. Dozens (in a scene that is, again, played for laughs) are hurt. And, incidentally, the car thief safely absconds, is never seen again and only figured marginally in the narrative in the first place, just one of the many loose threads in this tattered tale.

This mix of cynicism, wit and law-'n-order, which is loathsome, is made insidiously palatable by, firstly, the broad slapstick humor and, too, by a plot gimmickry which excuses the excesses by emphasizing the villainies. A Cadillac salesman from Detroit, for example, who is confused with a mobster by the cop duo, is severely beaten in broad daylight on a city street until, his head mashed against a car window, he "confesses" that he is arranging a "rendezvouz" with his boss' wife. Plus, shades of "Dirty Harry" again, the principal baddie turns out to be (in a surprise ending that is contrived and silly) a "fag" hippie male who is also a karate sharpster. What we now know sing in Rome sition, Liturgy." The work which Dr. Peloquin calls "incidental music for the Mass," was recorded recently by the BC Chorale and will appear soon on the Gregorian Institute of America labeL Later in the day, the chorale will perform in the Church of the Gesu, the Italian speaking Jesuit congregation.

On Jan. 8, Peloquin has a concert at the North American College in the Vatican. The chorale will return to Boston Jan. 10. DDHAM frr.

1128 338-4955 i xf S'wr J-J i $1 if SACK NATKK cmr OMIT. UTM-RTOi rf I A 1 Of ft A in about "intelligence" police certainly makes such por- traits of ruthless police agents feasible, but "Free- bie and the Bean" has opted to be adoring, cute and funny in its tone. So the movie fails grandly as satire. Yet it is also awkwardly humorous, so we shouldn't make the error of believing that what is abhorrent (the apotheosis is "Triumph of the Is not necessarily entertaining. Hollywood is not beyond catering to that premise, and director Richard Rush, a newcomer who reportedly this film moths ago, is evidently skilled.

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