Product Description
Richard Quine (Drive a Crooked Road) directs Pushover, a film noir classic featuring a top-notch cast including Fred MacMurray (Remember the Night), Kim Novak (5 Against the House), Phil Carey (The Long Gray Line), and Dorothy Malone (Convicted).
Lona (Novak) is the girlfriend of a bank robber suspected of murder, and detectives Sheridan (MacMurray) and McAllister (Carey) are assigned to stake out her apartment, where each becomes dangerously fixated - Sheridan with Lona, and McAllister on her neighbour, Ann (Malone).
Then Lona makes Sheridan an offer.
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to kill her lover and run away with her.
With its themes of surveillance and obsession prefiguring Novak's role in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Pushover is a triumph of suspense, and an acknowledged influence on Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless.
High Definition remasterOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (2021)Partners in Crime and Comedy (2021, 19 mins): author and critic Glenn Kenny discusses the careers and collaborations of director Richard Quine and actor Kim NovakBlunder Boys (1955, 16 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio play detectives assigned to the case of a justice-evading bank robberOriginal theatrical trailerImage gallery: publicity and promotional materialNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
