

Pushover
This year the great suspense drama is PUSHOVER, the story of temptation.
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
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6.6/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $400K
- Box office
- $3.6M
- Language
- English
- stolen money
- femme fatale
- film noir
- high tech surveillance
- bag of money
- los angeles, california
- police detective
- bank robbery
- stakeout
- police stakeout
- girlfriend as bait
- corrupt cop
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)14 Jul 1954
- Theatrical (limited)NRLos Angeles, California21 Jul 1954
- Theatrical (limited)Boston, Massachusetts23 Jul 1954
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York30 Jul 1954
- Theatrical6 Aug 1954
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1621 Jul 1954
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Pushover was released on 14 July 1954.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
4/20/2020
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 robb…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/21/2023
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 suppose…
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