Word: santschi
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Died. Tom Santschi, 50, hulking, fighting cinemactor (The Spoilers, The Hell Cat, Three Bad Men); of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Famed was his battle with oldtime Actor William Farnum? in The Spoilers; but their attempt to duplicate it last February in Ten Nights in a Bar Room (TIME, March 9) was a pathetic shambles...
...were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used to put on fistfights in silent pictures that are still famed for their realism. Now both are aging, paunchy men, and their struggle is grotesque, humiliating, feeble. In the end Farnum quits drinking and Little Mary does not die in spite of being hit in the head by a beer schooner when...
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