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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.
The Boss: Directed by Byron Haskin. With John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria McGehee, Doe Avedon. Political corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Byron Haskin
- 1957-05-06
The Boss (1956) is a loveless marriage mean-ass mob boss epic biopic historical tale of cynical criminal cruelty, manipulation and lavish corrupt money making and spending, spanning the early to mid years of the twentieth century.
The Boss. Coming home at the end of World War I, Matt Brady (John Payne), the black-sheep brother of big-city political boss Tim Brady (Roy Roberts), is a loose cannon who gets into drunken...
- Drama
- John Payne
- Ron Haskin
Matt Brady kills his brother. That’s just day one. Thick, syrupy and cartoonish, but boy is this a blast! Hard to compare to any other film, everything about it is great, but it exists in a drippy cornball universe, right off the ink stained pages of a straight uncut pure pulp novel.
- Ron Haskin
- Window Productions, Frank Seltzer Productions
Boss, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Middle Class City Ghost-screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's opening, 1919, introducing doughboy Matt (John Payne), two comrades (William Bishop, Bob Morgan) griping on parade, big brother Tim (Roy Roberts) and girlfriend Elsie (Doe Avedon), in The Boss, 1956.
Based on a script inspired by true events and penned pseudonymously by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, Byron Haskin’s The Boss is an unusual and relatively unknown noir drama that combines crime and corruption with an almost operatic sweep through 1920’s and 30’s organized crime.
