Pushover

Pushover (1954) is a film noir notable for being the first film to feature Kim Novak in a starring role. The Columbia Pictures picture also stars Fred MacMurray as a good cop gone bad. It was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S. Ballinger. An honest cop Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is tasked to track down over $200,000 in the hands of a gangster after a bank robbery. The cop maintains a 24-hour sur... more

Pushover (1954) is a film noir notable for being the first film to feature Kim Novak in a starring role. The Columbia Pictures picture also stars Fred MacMurray as a good cop gone bad. It was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S. Ballinger. An honest cop Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is tasked to track down over $200,000 in the hands of a gangster after a bank robbery. The cop maintains a 24-hour surveillance on Lona McLane (Kim Novak) - a girlfriend of one of the robbers. The cop quickly falls in love with Lona, who, when she finds out he's a policeman, tries to persuade him to kill Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards) so the two can take off with the cash. He initially resists, but eventually agrees. But after the killing, he finds that he also has to kill his detective partner Paddy Dolan too, in order to cover his tracks. Almost all the action takes place, at night, in the U-shaped apartment building where Lona lives. Reviews for the film... less