Plot
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Cast
as Paul Sheridan
as Rick McAllister
as Lona McLane
as Ann Stewart
as Police Lt. Carl Eckstrom
as Paddy Dolan
as Beery the Mechanic (uncredited)
as Hobbs (uncredited)
as Pickup Artist in Bar (uncredited)
as Detective Schaeffer (uncredited)
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Reviews
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 …
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 robb…