Leon Barsha
Nacimiento : 1905-12-26, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1964-11-13
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Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
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An unscrupulous businessman tries to win a government contract by playing up to the engineer assigned to review the project. He comes to the engineer's hotel room to offer him money, all the while secretly filming the proceedings with a hidden camera. Meanwhile the engineer, unhappily married to an alcoholic, uses the hotel room to continue his affair with the businessman's attractive young wife.
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Una escritora, que se recupera de una lesión, se queda atrapada en el ascensor instalado en su vivienda, durante un fin de semana festivo en el que se queda sola. Sin poder salir de allí, la situación alcanza un punto de desesperación mayor cuando la alarma de emergencia atrae a un enjambre de intrusos...
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Nuevo México, 1953. Jack Burns, un vaquero amante de la libertad y de los horizontes abiertos, llega cabalgando al pueblo de Duke City. Su intención es liberar a su amigo Paul Bondi antes de que lo trasladen a una prisión estatal. Bondi, que ha sido condenado a dos años de cárcel por acoger en su casa a algunos mexicanos que han cruzado ilegalmente la frontera, es un escritor que dejó su vida aventurera para casarse. Jack visita a la esposa de su amigo para exponerle su plan, pero ella lo rechaza, porque cree que puede complicar todavía más la situación.
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La policía intenta proteger a la esposa de un importante financiero que ha sido amenazada de muerte por una voz anónima. A pesar de los esfuerzos de los agentes, el cerco se estrecha cada vez más.
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Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.
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When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
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A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
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A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
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Una mujer llamada Elizabeth tiene unos fortísimos dolores de cabeza y dormir se convierte en un tormento. Recibe cartas amenazadoras escritas por una tal Lizzie, pero que en realidad escribe ella misma aunque sin saberlo. Acudirá a un psiquiatra para que le ayude y el doctor encontrará que en el interior de la paciente se encuentran tres personalidades: Elizabeth; Lizzie y Beth. El médico tendrá que lograr que sólo una permanezca.
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Dan (Don Ross) returns to L.A. having fought in the Korean War. He meets with Frank (Chuck Connors) the brother of Tommy who was one of the men killed under Dan’s command. Tommy wasn't happy at being passed over for promotion and wrote to his brother to say that if he died Dan would be to blame. Frank explains to Dan that his heart condition means he can no longer go big game hunting and makes him a lucrative offer to have a ‘hunt’ in L.A. with both men armed only with camera guns. Unbeknown to Dan, Frank replaces his camera round with a live bullet and plans to kill him in revenge for his brother’s death. The two men engage in a two day game of cat and mouse which is complicated by the involvement of Tommy’s wife and a mix up at a sports shop. As the men finally get each other in their sights who will win and who will die?
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Stragg es un forajido que tiene intimidados a todos los habitantes de la ciudad. El sheriff Young busca a un testigo, de una ciudad cercana, que testificaría contra él. Pero Stragg manda a un pistolero para que mate al sheriff y al testigo.
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Eric Hartman, un espía que trabaja para los comunistas, recibe el encargo de secuestrar al doctor Macklin, un físico nuclear canadiense, para llevarlo al otro lado del Telón de Acero.
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Myra es una autora de teatro cuyas obras triunfan en los escenarios de Broadway, pero su feliz existencia se desmorona cuando escucha cómo su marido Lester planea matarla.
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Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
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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.
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A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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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.
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It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. This time out, Elliot is teamed with singing cowboy Tex Ritter, while comedy relief is provided by diminutive stuntman Frank Mitchell. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin (Ritter) and Cannonball (Mitchell) find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe (Forrest Taylor), 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.
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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.
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A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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The scout's grandson foils land-grabbers; his sidekick flirts with twins.
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When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill 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.
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Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley (Dick Curtis). But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims (Dub Taylor) and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy (Dorothy Comingore) plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
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Cuando Chick Wheeler (Edgar Edwards) es acusado del asesinato de su amante Ruby Rose (Phyllis Clare), su hermana Jerry (Rita Hayworth), convencida de su inocencia, decide investigar el caso por su cuenta. El policía Burns (Charles Quigley) intentará protegerla de los múltiples peligros que implica tan temeraria investigación.
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Gail Preston (Rita Hayworth), una cantante de orquesta con no pocos enemigos, es asesinada de un tiro al terminar su segunda canción, "The Greatest Attraction in the World", y el primer sospechoso, Mr. Owen (Dwight Frye), queda claro cuando cae muerto. Entonces, el inspector de policía Tom Kellogg y su incompetente ayudante, Cliff Connally, enfocan su atención en el líder de la banda, "Swing" Traynor, y en su celosa amante Ann Bishop, pero también ponen su mirada en Frank Daniels, Jules Stevens y Charles Waverly.
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A Tom Evans se le asigna localizar a una banda de secuestradores asesinos que roban camiones. Al ir de incógnito en la empresa de transporte, pronto se encuentra tras la pista de la banda, pero cuando su tapadera es descubierta, su vida está en peligro...
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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.
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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.
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Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.
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The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.