PUSHOVER

 Richard Quine was certainly no Billy Wilder and "Pushover" was a long way from "Double Indemnity" but perhaps someone somewhere had the idea that if they cast Fred MacMurray as the crooked cop who falls for gangster's moll Kim Novak, (in her debut), perhaps some of the old "Double Indemnity" magic might rub off. It didn't but this noirish crime film is still a very solid entertainment with a more than decent plot.

It might have been better, of course, had Novak a tenth of Stanwyck's talent or if it had a screenplay by someone like Chandler but on the plus side it did have a supporting cast that included Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone and E. G. Marshall and some first-rate cinematography from Lester White and if, fundamentally, it's a B-Movie it's a good one and MacMurray is always worth watching. No classic, then, (though it is quite highly thought of in some quarters), but a very enjoyable genre piece nevertheless.