Editing

Leon Barsha

Born — Died

1905-12-26 — 1964-11-13

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Editing

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Roaring Frontiers poster
8.0

U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.

Roaring Frontiers

1941

Who Killed Gail Preston? poster
6.5

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

Who Killed Gail Preston?

1938

Power of the Press poster
6.5

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Power of the Press

1943

Two Gun Law poster
10.0

Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.

Two Gun Law

1937

The Man from Tumbleweeds poster
5.0

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

The Man from Tumbleweeds

1940

Riders of the Northwest Mounted poster
7.5

Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud, also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud, Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

1943

Behind the camera

Roaring Frontiers poster
8.0

U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.

Roaring Frontiers

1941

Who Killed Gail Preston? poster
6.5

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

Who Killed Gail Preston?

1938

Power of the Press poster
6.5

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Power of the Press

1943

Two Gun Law poster
10.0

Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.

Two Gun Law

1937

The Man from Tumbleweeds poster
5.0

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

The Man from Tumbleweeds

1940

Riders of the Northwest Mounted poster
7.5

Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud, also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud, Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

1943

No artwork available
4.0

A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.

Murder Is News

1937

The Return of Wild Bill poster
7.0

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.

The Return of Wild Bill

1940

Two-Fisted Sheriff poster
3.8

This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.

Two-Fisted Sheriff

1937

Pioneers of the Frontier poster
9.0

Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.

Pioneers of the Frontier

1940

Not a Ladies' Man poster
6.2

A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.

Not a Ladies' Man

1942

Vengeance of the West poster
7.0

Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.

Vengeance of the West

1942

The Return of Daniel Boone poster
6.0

The scout's grandson foils land-grabbers; his sidekick flirts with twins.

The Return of Daniel Boone

1941

Special Inspector poster
5.4

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.

Special Inspector

1938

The Lone Star Vigilantes poster
8.0

It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin and Cannonball find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe, a bush-league dictator with his own police force. In true Hitlerian fashion, Monroe extorts huge sums of money from the populace, terrorizing them into silence. Our three heroes set about to put an end to Monroe's regime, with time out for Tex Ritter's musical interludes.

The Lone Star Vigilantes

1942

Convicted poster
6.1

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

Convicted

1938

The Pace That Thrills poster
6.0

Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.

The Pace That Thrills

1952

Hands Across the Rockies poster
7.2

Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.

Hands Across the Rockies

1941

The Officer and the Lady poster
8.0

A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.

The Officer and the Lady

1941

One Man Justice poster
6.5

Larry Clarke rides into the town of Mesa, Arizona, from Texas, where he has just sold his ranch. Several people call him "Ted Crockett",who supposedly has been dead for five years, and a bartender advises him to say he is Crockett, as he can aid the law abiding citizens that way. Both Red Grindy, leader of the town's badmen, and Sheriff Ben Adams are fooled by Larry's resemblence to Crockett, as is Crockett's young widow, Mary, until Larry convinces her his isn't. He finds that all of the Crockett cowhands, with the exception of Neal King, are systematically rustling Mary's cattle. Larry takes charge, sends to Texas for his riders and then brings to an end the reign of terror Grindy and his men have over the territory. Creased in the head by a gunshot, Larry is freed of his amnesia and turns out to actually be Ted Crockett.

One Man Justice

1937

Bullets for Bandits poster
7.0

In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.

Bullets for Bandits

1942

Two-Fisted Rangers poster
4.3

Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is to blame. After Rand murders newspaper publisher Jordan Webster, Thad sets out to put him behind bars.

Two-Fisted Rangers

1939

Sing While You Dance poster
8.0

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but she acquires the song, the job, and Johnny.

Sing While You Dance

1946

The Lone Prairie poster
8.5

Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.

The Lone Prairie

1942

Trapped poster
9.0

Ted Haley rides to his brother's ranch and finds him dying from a knife wound. The brother names Sol Rothert as his killer. Leaving the house, Ted doesn't notice a mysterious man watching him, but he sees a rider gallop up to the house and enter, and Ted rushes to investigate.

Trapped

1937