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Director
  
Byron Haskin

Music director
  
Albert Glasser

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Dalton Trumbo

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
October 1956

Writer
  
Dalton Trumbo, Ben Perry (front for Dalton Trumbo)

Cast
  
John Payne
(Matt Brady),
William Bishop
(Bob Herrick),
Gloria McGehee
(Lorry Reed),
Doe Avedon
(Elsie Reynolds),
Roy Roberts
(Tim Brady),
Rhys Williams
(Stanley Millard)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
Uncensored and uncut version of a scandalous true story!

The Boss is a 1956 film directed by Byron Haskin. It stars John Payne, Gloria McGhee and Doe Avedon.

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Plot

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Matt Brady comes home from World War I to a city where his older brother Tim is a political kingpin. Matt meets an old friend, Bob Herrick, but an argument leads to a fistfight. He ends up late for a date with Elsie Reynolds, who is furious. Matt angrily replies that he wants nothing more to do with her.

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Matt's self-destructive behavior continues at a restaurant, where he intervenes on behalf of a forlorn customer, Lorry Reed, punching a waiter. He not only takes sympathy on her, he impulsively insists they get married.

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Regretting his actions the next day, Matt's temper again flares when Tim Brady decides to get the marriage annulled. Matt tells him to mind his own business. Minutes later, Tim dies of a heart attack.

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Years go by. Matt, still in a loveless marriage with Lorry, has followed his brother into politics. His unethical methods include making money on a tip from gangster Johnny Mazia and claiming half the profits of a cement business in exchange for guaranteeing it city projects. Bob has married Elsie, meanwhile, and become Matt's lawyer and insurance commissioner.

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Matt continues to mistreat Lorry, even giving her a very expensive necklace only to make Elsie envious. A newspaper editor and prosecutor begin investigating Matt, whose net worth also vanishes with the stock market's crash. He goes into business with gangster Johnny, inadvertently becoming an accomplice in a killing spree.

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An effort to make things right leads to a fight resulting in Johnny's death, but Matt is indicted and shocked when Bob testifies against him. Lorry leaves, telling Matt how he deluded himself that he had even one friend. Matt ends up by himself, behind bars.

Cast

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  • John Payne as Matt Brady
  • William Bishop as Bob Herrick
  • Gloria McGhee as Lorry Reed
  • Doe Avedon as Elsie Reynolds
  • Roy Roberts as Tim Brady
  • References

    The Boss (1956 film) Wikipedia
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