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Pushover (film)
Pushover is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Quine, starring Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey and Kim Novak in her first credited role. The motion picture was adapted from two novels – Thomas Walsh's The Night Watch and William S. Ballinger's Rafferty – by Roy Huggins, who went on to great success creating television series, including The Fugitive, Maverick, and The Rockford Files.
During a bank robbery a bank guard is shot and killed by one of the robbers, Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards), who gets away with $250,000.
Lona McLane (Kim Novak) leaves a movie theatre and walks to her car. The car won't start, and Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) appears at her window. He is unable to fix the car, and he takes her to a bar while a mechanic makes a repair. They spend the night—and the next three days—together.
Next morning, we learn Sheridan is a cop, sent undercover to befriend Lona, hoping she will lead them to her boyfriend, Wheeler. Police Lieutenant Karl Eckstrom (E.G. Marshall) wants Wheeler alive for questioning. Surveillance is arranged on Lona's apartment, from an apartment opposite. Among the police on duty are Sheridan, Rick McAllister (Phillip Carey), and Paddy Dolan (Allen Nourse). Lt. Eckstrom asks Sheridan to take care of Paddy. Close to retirement, he has a drinking problem and just one more reprimand will see him lose his pension.
On surveillance, McAllister watches Lona's next door neighbour, Ann Stewart (Dorothy Malone), as often as he does Lona. Entering the building one day, he saves her from a man pestering her. She shows her liking for McAllister, but he cannot take it further while on a stakeout.
During Sheridan's shift, Lona leaves her apartment, and Sheridan tails her. She drives to his apartment and tells him she knows he tampered with her car deliberately and that he's a cop. Though furious at first, she soon forgives him, professing her love for him. She then tries to persuade him to kill Wheeler and get the bank money, so they can run away together. Essentially an honest cop, Sheridan refuses and sends her away...but he cannot resist her. When he returns to the stakeout, he arranges to meet her on the roof of the apartment building, and agrees to her plan.
The next time Lona leaves her apartment, Sheridan allows McAllister to tail her. Sheridan tries to call Paddy on his car phone but there is no reply. Leaving the apartment building, he finds Paddy has deserted his post to visit a bar. Sheridan agrees to keep the lapse a secret. As they talk, Wheeler arrives. Sheridan and Paddy lie in wait for him at the building entrance and grab him as he leaves. They take him to his car, and make him open the trunk to get the briefcase full of money. As Paddy leans in to inspect the bag, Sheridan pretends that Wheeler is trying to escape and shoots him dead.
Sheridan persuades Paddy that they should cover up Wheeler's murder, since their boss will be furious that they disobeyed instructions and didn't take Wheeler alive. They bundle Wheeler into the trunk, to dump him elsewhere.
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Pushover (film)
Pushover is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Quine, starring Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey and Kim Novak in her first credited role. The motion picture was adapted from two novels – Thomas Walsh's The Night Watch and William S. Ballinger's Rafferty – by Roy Huggins, who went on to great success creating television series, including The Fugitive, Maverick, and The Rockford Files.
During a bank robbery a bank guard is shot and killed by one of the robbers, Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards), who gets away with $250,000.
Lona McLane (Kim Novak) leaves a movie theatre and walks to her car. The car won't start, and Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) appears at her window. He is unable to fix the car, and he takes her to a bar while a mechanic makes a repair. They spend the night—and the next three days—together.
Next morning, we learn Sheridan is a cop, sent undercover to befriend Lona, hoping she will lead them to her boyfriend, Wheeler. Police Lieutenant Karl Eckstrom (E.G. Marshall) wants Wheeler alive for questioning. Surveillance is arranged on Lona's apartment, from an apartment opposite. Among the police on duty are Sheridan, Rick McAllister (Phillip Carey), and Paddy Dolan (Allen Nourse). Lt. Eckstrom asks Sheridan to take care of Paddy. Close to retirement, he has a drinking problem and just one more reprimand will see him lose his pension.
On surveillance, McAllister watches Lona's next door neighbour, Ann Stewart (Dorothy Malone), as often as he does Lona. Entering the building one day, he saves her from a man pestering her. She shows her liking for McAllister, but he cannot take it further while on a stakeout.
During Sheridan's shift, Lona leaves her apartment, and Sheridan tails her. She drives to his apartment and tells him she knows he tampered with her car deliberately and that he's a cop. Though furious at first, she soon forgives him, professing her love for him. She then tries to persuade him to kill Wheeler and get the bank money, so they can run away together. Essentially an honest cop, Sheridan refuses and sends her away...but he cannot resist her. When he returns to the stakeout, he arranges to meet her on the roof of the apartment building, and agrees to her plan.
The next time Lona leaves her apartment, Sheridan allows McAllister to tail her. Sheridan tries to call Paddy on his car phone but there is no reply. Leaving the apartment building, he finds Paddy has deserted his post to visit a bar. Sheridan agrees to keep the lapse a secret. As they talk, Wheeler arrives. Sheridan and Paddy lie in wait for him at the building entrance and grab him as he leaves. They take him to his car, and make him open the trunk to get the briefcase full of money. As Paddy leans in to inspect the bag, Sheridan pretends that Wheeler is trying to escape and shoots him dead.
Sheridan persuades Paddy that they should cover up Wheeler's murder, since their boss will be furious that they disobeyed instructions and didn't take Wheeler alive. They bundle Wheeler into the trunk, to dump him elsewhere.