You won't be disappointed!

One of the best films i have seen

A lot of fun.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Excellent film noir where Fred Mac Murray repeats his falling into evil as he did ten years earlier in the memorable "Double Indemnity."In her film debut, Kim Novak already showed problematic acting as the moll of a bank robber who Fred, the cop, falls for and the two plan to get the money that her boyfriend had stolen in a bank robbery.With the exception of "The Eddy Duchin Story," and "Jeanne Eagels," both films where she was terrific, Novak just doesn't put it over in the role of the moll.The role of the moll would have been better suited for Dorothy Malone, who would cop a supporting Oscar two years later in the great "Written on the Wind." Instead, Malone is relegated in playing the nurse next door, who is Mac Murray's ultimate downfall when she keeps meeting him at the most inopportune time for him.We have a real good suspense thriller here as other police begin to piece together what is really going on in discovering that Fred is the real culprit here.

A film worth in its own right. Many echo and repeat a supposed "debt" to "Double Indemnity". Is "North By Northwest" a lesser film because of its "debt" to "39 Steps"? Is "Ran" because of its traces of "Kagemusha"? Etc. That's silly. "Pushover" is noir cinema in its own terms: the cop between badge and dough, a subtle femme fatale, a movie beautifully photographed among shadows at night, a dark urban tone, voyeurism (or is it just police duty?), criminal psychology of ambiguous characters, smart lines and great acting. 88 minutes that will get you for sure. Not to mention the anticipation to "Rear Window"!Or if you just want to know why Kim Novak would later perfectly fit in Hitchcock's "Vertigo", just watch it.

I enjoyed this movie, as I think Fred MacMurray is one of our great actors, with a wide range. Comedy to drama. Happy nerd to hardened cop or lower level establishment man. Clearly he is bored with his mission in life in this film and the great Double Indemnity.Possible Spoilers: OK. why a 7 and not an 8? I felt Paul Sheridan's (MacMurry) disgust with his life and his apparent loneliness could have used more development. He falls too easily for Kim Novak's character, even if she is strikingly beautiful. She too easily goes with him the first night they meet. It would be more believable, and more sensual, if there were two meetings at least, to pulse his desire for her. Now, I don't particularly like films where the male star is a little long in the tooth for his paramour.This was common in the 50s and 60s when Male stars of the 30s and 40s were cast with much younger female leads, presumably because of the men's star power. I put forward Bogart,and Bill Holden with Audrey Hepburn (totally unbelievable) in Sabrina, Bogart being 55 and Hepburn 25.Or Rear Window with an older Jimmy Stewart, age 47, and Grace Kelly, 25.With some suspended belief, this is a very enjoyable movie. I love noir.The story lines of noir are simple and pure and the mood dark. I believe this movie pulls it off though it was the waning period of noir: 1954;

Fred MacMurray knocked it out of the park in Billy Wilder's DOUBLE INDEMNITY as the street smart insurance salesman who gets out-smarted by Barbara Stanwyck's femme fatale in the classic Film Noir (some even say it's the first true film noir). This time around we get to see what a similar plot looks like in the hands of lesser creators.The musical score and the cinematography are pedestrian by comparison, and although this marks the debut of Kim Novak her character is nowhere near as interesting as the multi- dimensional scheming Phyllis of DOUBLE fame. While Wilder mined the chemistry between MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson as his boss in the earlier film-- so much so that MacMurray was able to stay out of the radar of the otherwise sharp Robinson, E.G. Marshall is cardboard as the boss in this entry.A big disappointment at a time when KISS ME DEADLY and THE KILLING were getting film noir right. Something to watch if you come across it but I wouldn't go out of my way to find it.