Pushover

“This year the great suspense drama is PUSHOVER The story of temptation”

6.5(74)19541h 28m

CrimeThrillerDrama

A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

Director

Richard Quine

Cast

Fred MacMurray

Paul Sheridan

Philip Carey

Rick McAllister

Kim Novak

Lona McLane

Dorothy Malone

Ann Stewart

E.G. Marshall

Police Lt. Carl Eckstrom

Allen Nourse

Paddy Dolan

James Anderson

Beery the Mechanic (uncredited)

Joe Bailey

Hobbs (uncredited)

Tony Barrett

Pickup Artist in Bar (uncredited)

Walter Beaver

Detective Schaeffer (uncredited)

Richard Bryan

Detective Harris (uncredited)

Robert Carson

First Bartender (uncredited)

Reviews

2 reviews

John Chard

5y ago

8.0

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 s...

Geronimo1967

2y ago

7.0

I always felt that Fred MacMurray was a bit of a lurch as an actor. Never particularly versatile nor charismatic to watch. Here, though, he is pretty effective as the undercover cop "Sheridan". Things hot up for his character when he encounters the enigmatic "Lona" (Kim Novak) and soon they are having a passionate affair. What we soon find out is that she is the gal of a thief behind a $200k robbe...