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Pushover is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Quine, starring Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey and Kim Novak in her first credited role. The motion picture was adapted from two novels, Thomas Walsh's The Night Watch and William S. Ballinger's Rafferty, by Roy Huggins, who went on to great success creating television series, including The Fugitive, Maverick, and The Rockford Files.
- $400,000
- Jules Schermer
- Arthur Morton
Pushover: Directed by Richard Quine. With Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Richard Quine
- 1954-08-06
Pushover. In the wake of a bank heist, Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is part of a team of cops assigned to recover the stolen $200,000. They stake out the apartment of Lona McLane (Kim Novak ...
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- Fred Macmurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey
- Richard Quine
- Crime, Drama
Pushover (1954) offers a good example of the pleasures you can find even in supposedly lesser entries in the film noir cycle of the late Forties and early Fifties. Besides the memorable presence of Kim Novak in her first starring role, the film features taut direction by Richard Quine; notice, for instance, how simply and effectively the ...
- Richard Quine, Jack Corrick
- Fred Macmurray
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Pushover (1954) An early widescreen black and white film noir gem. It comes late in the noir cycle but it crackles with precision and sharp acting. Though the details of the plot differ, it is an obvious echo of "Double Indemnity" with the leading man, played again by Fred MacMurray, sucked into a risky plot for big money and alluring love.
Mar 13, 2020 · By Richard Brody. March 13, 2020. This bare-bones film noir, from 1954, is suffused with a coolly oppressive air of doom. Kim Novak, in her first movie role, plays Lona, the girlfriend of a bank ...
