Pushover

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Hermione P Jan 20, 2019 The promise of a femme fatale's love lures an honest middle-aged cop down the road to ruin in this noirish crime drama. The trouble centers around a bank robber and his gang who have just knocked-off a bank for $200,000. To find the crooks and the loot, Officer Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray who played a similar role a decade before in the controversial Double Indemnity) is assigned to carefully monitor the activities of the gangster's bombshell-blonde moll Leona (Marilyn Novak, who later became a star after she changed her first name to "Kim") in hopes that she will lead him to the robbers' lair. It doesn't take long for the slinky seductress to cast a romantic spell over the aging Sheridan and after she has him firmly hook, she suggest that he murder the gangster so that the two of them can abscond with the money. See more

Poe S Aug 10, 2018 Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak are better known for other roles (in Double Indemnity, 1944, and Vertigo, 1958, respectively) and those other roles haunt this late noir. For example, MacMurray plays a cop who decides to commit a crime with a suspect/femme fatale and Novak, in her debut, plays a woman complicit in an earlier crime who becomes the target of the male gaze (a stakeout) and the object of MacMurray's obsession. Pushover can't match those top ten noirs but it does rise above a lot of other B pictures through its careful plotting which finds Novak always under surveillance by the cops and MacMurray on the stakeout constantly surrounded by his unsuspecting peers. Their game is to kill Novak's boyfriend and steal the proceeds of his recent bank robbery and somehow get away with it, taking advantage of MacMurray's position. Of course, there are a few complications and, in the end, not everyone behaves rationally. Worth a look, especially for film noir aficionados. See more

Albus L Dec 4, 2017 Novack with no prior acting lessons does a stand out job.

Han S Aug 28, 2017 This is a great thriller about a cop who goes bad when he falls for a femme fatale. The plot is intricate, the setting is noir, and the tension is palpable. See more

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