Pushover

A clip from Pushover. Lona (Kim Novak) has car trouble and doesn't realize Paul (Fred MacMurray) is a cop assigned to make friends with her.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and The Film Foundation partner once again to bring five films to DVD for the first time, fully restored and remastered, in Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II. In this second volume, renowned directors Fritz Lang, Phil Karlson and Irving Lerner are joined by Jacques Tourneur and Richard Quine in proving that lust, adultery, greed and revenge all adds up to cold, calculated murder. Film Noir Classics II takes you on a dark journey among lowlifes and mobsters, cops and gun molls, and the dimwitted, hapless pawns who forever changed the landscape of cinema, and whose doomed paths are as disturbing today as when they were first committed to film.

The trailer for Pushover. An honest cop Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is tasked to track down over $200,000 in the hands of a gangster after a bank robbery. The cop maintains a 24-hour surveillance on Lona McLane (Kim Novak) - a girlfriend of one of the robbers. The cop quickly falls in love with Lona, who, when she finds out he's a policeman, tries to persuade him to kill Harry Wheeler (Paul Richards) so the two can take off with the cash. He initially resists, but eventually agrees. But after the killing, he finds that he also has to kill his detective partner Paddy Dolan too, in order to cover his tracks. Almost all the action takes place, at night, in the U-shaped apartment building where Lona lives.