(1954) Pushover
CRIME THRILLER
Adapted from the novel by Brady Corbet and Bill S. Ballinger to which the first few minutes is reminiscent to another bank heist movie released a year after called "Rififi" to which there is hardly any dialogue spoken during a successful bank robbery that involves two people, leaving one officer killed. Later, we then see a young attractive blonde lady, Lona(Kim Novak) leaving the theater. And when she could not start up her car, Paul (Fred McMurray) conveniently then shows up and it happens they both came from the same theater. By the time he drives her to his apartment waiting until he got his car fixed, they would then spend time with one another. On the following morning, we are then see Ltd Carl Ecstrom (E. G. Marshall) as he in charge of the case of #1 retrieving the money the 2 bank robbers had stolen #2 to capture one of the two bank robbers, we finally find out one of them his name is Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards) as he is working with other authorities. And it was sometime during this point, Paul walks in and we find out he is intentionally sent to meet Lona to be on the inside to find out the whereabouts of Harry Wheeler as she is supposed to his girlfriend. Also included are authorities keeping an eye on her while living across from her apartment complex. And it is not long before Lona figures out who he actually is, and he falls in love with her, complicating the investigation.
I love the first half, particularly the line when Paul mentions about the money may be dirty, and she responds "Money isn't dirty, just people!" It just goes down in a downward spiral when Paul the officer jeopardizes or compromises the investigation as soon he falls in love with her, to which detectives never considered that to be a possibility throughout the entire movie. Reminiscent to the set up to be familiar to another Fred MacMurray movie called Double Indemnity released back in 1944 to which his character an insurance salesman falls over another lady played by Barbara Stanwyk!
Adapted from the novel by Brady Corbet and Bill S. Ballinger to which the first few minutes is reminiscent to another bank heist movie released a year after called "Rififi" to which there is hardly any dialogue spoken during a successful bank robbery that involves two people, leaving one officer killed. Later, we then see a young attractive blonde lady, Lona(Kim Novak) leaving the theater. And when she could not start up her car, Paul (Fred McMurray) conveniently then shows up and it happens they both came from the same theater. By the time he drives her to his apartment waiting until he got his car fixed, they would then spend time with one another. On the following morning, we are then see Ltd Carl Ecstrom (E. G. Marshall) as he in charge of the case of #1 retrieving the money the 2 bank robbers had stolen #2 to capture one of the two bank robbers, we finally find out one of them his name is Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards) as he is working with other authorities. And it was sometime during this point, Paul walks in and we find out he is intentionally sent to meet Lona to be on the inside to find out the whereabouts of Harry Wheeler as she is supposed to his girlfriend. Also included are authorities keeping an eye on her while living across from her apartment complex. And it is not long before Lona figures out who he actually is, and he falls in love with her, complicating the investigation.
I love the first half, particularly the line when Paul mentions about the money may be dirty, and she responds "Money isn't dirty, just people!" It just goes down in a downward spiral when Paul the officer jeopardizes or compromises the investigation as soon he falls in love with her, to which detectives never considered that to be a possibility throughout the entire movie. Reminiscent to the set up to be familiar to another Fred MacMurray movie called Double Indemnity released back in 1944 to which his character an insurance salesman falls over another lady played by Barbara Stanwyk!