Pushover

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

Cast

Fred MacMurray

as Paul Sheridan

Philip Carey

as Rick McAllister

Kim Novak

as Lona McLane

Dorothy Malone

as Ann Stewart

E.G. Marshall

as Police Lt. Carl Eckstrom

Allen Nourse

as Paddy Dolan

James Anderson

as Beery the Mechanic (uncredited)

Joe Bailey

as Hobbs (uncredited)

Tony Barrett

as Pickup Artist in Bar (uncredited)

Walter Beaver

as Detective Schaeffer (uncredited)

Reviews

John Chard

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 cin...

CinemaSerf

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 havi...

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