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Pushover is a 1954 American film noir directed by Richard Quine for Columbia Pictures, starring Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, and Kim Novak in her first credited film role. MacMurray plays a police detective assigned to surveil a bank robber's girlfriend who becomes personally involved with her. The film uses police observation, concealed motives, and moral compromise to build a crime story around a law officer undermining his own investigation.
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Who stars in the 1954 film Pushover?
Pushover was directed by Richard Quine for Columbia Pictures and stars Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, and Kim Novak. It is an 88-minute American film noir released in 1954. [Turner Classic Movies](https://www.tcm.com/articles/155281/pushover)
What is Pushover about?
Fred MacMurray plays police detective Paul Sheridan, who is assigned to watch bank robber Harry Wheeler's girlfriend, Lona McLane, played by Kim Novak. Sheridan falls for Lona and becomes involved in a plan to take the stolen money for themselves. [Turner Classic Movies](https://www.tcm.com/articles/155281/pushover)
Why is Kim Novak's role in Pushover historically notable?
Novak plays Lona McLane in her first credited film role and first starring role. Her performance also predates her later collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo in 1958. [Turner Classic Movies](https://www.tcm.com/articles/155281/pushover)
Was Pushover adapted from a book?
Yes, Roy Huggins adapted the film from Thomas Walsh's The Night Watch and William S. Ballinger's Rafferty. That makes Pushover a literary adaptation as well as a Columbia noir built around a surveillance plot. [Pushover film reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushover_%28film%29)
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