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Pushover

Pushover

6,5 /10 (76 Votes)
1954 EN 88 min

Overview

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

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Release date

14/07/1954

Votes

76

Popularity

2.0

This year the great suspense drama is PUSHOVER, the story of temptation.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

88 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2020-04-20

⭐ 8

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 surv…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2023-05-21

⭐ 7

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 robbery and he is supposed to be using her to get to her beau. When she discovers he is a policeman she tries to make sure that he is, and stays, in her corner. He, on the other hand, has a job to do - or …

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