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  1. 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. An effort to make things right leads to a fight resulting in Johnny's death, but Matt is indicted and shocked when Bob ...

  2. 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
  3. Boss, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) My Private Life Midwest political strongman Matt (John Payne) has dressed up downtrodden wife Lorry (Gloria McGhee) in diamonds, which are really for his ex-gal Elsie (Doe Avedon), who is a dinner guest with her new husband, his back-in-town old pal, Bob (William Bishop), trouble brewing, in The Boss, 1956.

    • Ron Haskin, Lew Borzage
    • John Payne
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  5. 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 fights ...

    • Drama
    • John Payne
    • Ron Haskin
  6. 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.

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  8. A falling out with his best friend/severest critic Bob Herrick (William Bishop) sets the stage for the ruthless Brady's inevitable downfall. Though all the names were changed to protect the guilty, audiences in 1956 were quick to perceive that the film was a thinly disguised attack on the Pendergast machine of Kansas City, Missouri. Coproduced ...

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