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Pushover

  • 1954
  • Passed
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Kim Novak and Fred MacMurray in Pushover (1954)
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CrimeDramaFilm-Noir

An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.

  • Director
    • Richard Quine
  • Writers
    • Roy Huggins
    • Thomas Walsh
    • Bill S. Ballinger
  • Stars
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Kim Novak
    • Philip Carey
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    3.6K
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    • Director
      • Richard Quine
    • Writers
      • Roy Huggins
      • Thomas Walsh
      • Bill S. Ballinger
    • Stars
      • Fred MacMurray
      • Kim Novak
      • Philip Carey
    • 55User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Kim Novak in Pushover (1954)
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    Fred MacMurray in Pushover (1954)
    Kim Novak and Fred MacMurray in Pushover (1954)
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    Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    • Paul Sheridan
    Kim Novak
    Kim Novak
    • Lona McLane
    Philip Carey
    Philip Carey
    • Rick McAllister
    • (as Phil Carey)
    Dorothy Malone
    Dorothy Malone
    • Ann Stewart
    E.G. Marshall
    E.G. Marshall
    • Police Lt. Carl Eckstrom
    Allen Nourse
    • Paddy Dolan
    James Anderson
    James Anderson
    • Beery--Mechanic
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Bailey
    • Hobbs
    • (uncredited)
    Tony Barrett
    Tony Barrett
    • Pickup Artist in Bar
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Beaver
    • Detective Schaeffer
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Bryan
    • Detective Harris
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Carson
    Robert Carson
    • First Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    Phil Chambers
    Phil Chambers
    • Detective Briggs
    • (uncredited)
    Dick Crockett
    Dick Crockett
    • Mr. Crockett
    • (uncredited)
    John De Simone
    • Assistant Bank Manager
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Dexter
    Alan Dexter
    • Detective Fine
    • (uncredited)
    Don C. Harvey
    Don C. Harvey
    • Detective Peters
    • (uncredited)
    Anne Loos
    Anne Loos
    • Bank Teller
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Richard Quine
    • Writers
      • Roy Huggins
      • Thomas Walsh
      • Bill S. Ballinger
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    • Trivia
      One of the sources for the film was the novel "The Night Watch" by Thomas Walsh, which was serialized under the title "The Killer Wore a Badge", in the Saturday Evening Post from November 10 to December 15, 1951.
    • Goofs
      As in "Double Indemnity", although Fred MacMurray's character is not married, he wears a wedding ring throughout the film.
    • Quotes

      Lona McLane: Well, it's been weird knowing you.

    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: In Search of Kim Novak (1964)
    • Soundtracks
      There Goes That Song Again
      Music by Jule Styne (uncredited)

      Played by duo pianists at the cocktail lounge

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    8/10
    Money isn't dirty. Just people.
    Pushover is directed by Richard Quine and adapted to screenplay by Roy Huggins from stories written by Bill S. Ballinger and Thomas Walsh. It stars Fred MacMurray, Phillip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone and E. G. Marshall. Music is scored by Arthur Morton and cinematography by Lester White.

    Straight cop Paul Sheridan (MacMurray) is on the trail of the loot stolen in a bank robbery where a guard was shot and killed. He is tasked with getting to know Lona McLane (Novak), the girlfriend of the chief suspect in the robbery. But once contact is made, and surveillance set up over the road from her apartment complex, Sheridan begins to fall in love and lust with the sultry femme.

    Comparisons with the superior Double Indemnity are fair enough, but really there is enough here, and considerable differences too, for the film to rightfully be judged on its own merits. Also of note to point out is that one or two critics have questioned if Pushover is actually a film noir piece? Bizarre! Given that character motives, destinies and thematics of plot are quintessential film noir.

    A good but weary guy is emotionally vulnerable and finds his life spun into a vortex of lust, greed and murder. Yet the femme fatale responsible, is not a rank and file manipulator, she too has big issues to deal with, a trophy girlfriend to a crook, she coarsely resents this fact. The cop who never smiles and the girl who has forgotten how too, is there hope there? Do they need the money that has weaved them together? What does that old devil called fate have in store for them? Classic noir traits do pulse from the plot. True, the trajectory the pic takes had been a well trodden formula in noir by the mid fifties, where noir as a strong force was on the wane, but this holds up very well.

    It isn't just a piece solely relying on two characters either, there's the concurrent tale of Sheridan's voyeuristic partner Rik McAllister (Carey), who has caught the eye of Lona's next door neighbour, Ann Stewart (Malone). Both these characters operate in a different world to the other two, yet the question remains if a relationship can be born out from such shady beginnings? The presentation of relationships here is delightfully perverse. The visual style wrung out by Quine (Drive a Crooked Road) and White (5 Against the House) is most assuredly noir, with 99% of the film set at night, with prominent shadows, damp streets lit by bulbous lamps and roof top scenes decorated sparsely by jutting aerials. The L.A. backdrop a moody observer to the unwrapping of damaged human goods.

    Cast are very good, all working well for their reliable director. Novak sizzles in what was her first credited starring role, she perfectly embodies a gal that someone like Paul Sheridan could lose his soul for. MacMurray is suitably weary, his lived in face telling of a life lacking in genuine moments of pleasure. Carey, square jawed, tall and handsome, he is the perfect foil to MacMurray's woe. Malone offers the potential ray of light trying to break out in this dark part of America, while Marshall as tough Lieutenant Eckstrom and Allen Nourse as a copper riding the noir train to sadness, score favourably too.

    It opens with a daylight bank robbery and closes in true noir style on a cold and wet night time street. Pushover, deserving to be viewed as one of the more interesting 1950s film noirs. 8/10
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    • Release date
      • August 6, 1954 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 322 French Street
    • Filming locations
      • Magnolia Theatre - 4403 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, California, USA(closed)
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $400,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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