Matt ends up by himself, behind bars.Melissa McCarthy has had plenty of ups and downs in her career. Lorry leaves, telling Matt how he deluded himself that he had even one friend. He goes into business with gangster Johnny, inadvertently becoming an accomplice in a killing spree.Īn 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. A newspaper editor and prosecutor begin investigating Matt, whose net worth also vanishes with the stock market's crash.

Matt continues to mistreat Lorry, even giving her a very expensive necklace only to make Elsie envious. Bob has married Elsie, meanwhile, and become Matt's lawyer and insurance commissioner. 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. Matt, still in a loveless marriage with Lorry, has followed his brother into politics. Minutes later, Tim dies of a heart attack. Regretting his actions the next day, Matt's temper again flares when Tim Brady decides to get the marriage annulled. He not only takes sympathy on her, he impulsively insists they get married.

Matt's self-destructive behavior continues at a restaurant, where he intervenes on behalf of a forlorn customer, Lorry Reed, punching a waiter. Matt angrily replies that he wants nothing more to do with her. He ends up late for a date with Elsie Reynolds, who is furious. Matt meets an old friend, Bob Herrick, but an argument leads to a fistfight. Matt Brady comes home from World War I to a city where his older brother Tim is a political kingpin. The Boss is a 1956 American crime film noir directed by Byron Haskin and starring John Payne.

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