Pushover
Director: Richard Quine Run Time: 88 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1954
Starring: Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey
Archival 35mm Print!
Following a daring bank heist, cop Paul Sheridan (MacMurray) is assigned to keep covert tabs on the main suspect’s girlfriend. But once he makes contact with sexy Lona McLane (budding superstar Kim Novak in her first starring role), he’s on a slippery slope; she persuades Sheridan that they can escape together with the loot and leave both the crooks and the cops high and dry. A bristling, beautifully directed and photographed thriller, from a dynamite script by the redoubtable Roy Huggins. Touted by Jean-Luc Godard as one of the best American films of the 1950s. – Film Noir Foundation
Double Feature with CLASH BY NIGHT
This program is funded in part by The Brattle’s 35mm Film Fund. Donations to this fund maintain our film projection equipment, train future projectionists, and ensure that The Brattle will be able to continue 35mm screenings well into the future.