Biography: Tom Santschi |
A barnstorming stage actor for nearly 20 years, burly leading man Tom Santschi entered films in 1909. Five years later, he made cinema history with his bloody, drawn-out screen fistfight with William Farnum in The Spoilers (1914). Farnum won that bout... more
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Cast: Dorothy Revier
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 64min
Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's been hijacking his shipments. The cops decide not to get involved but instead remain on the sidelines, hoping that Mayo and...
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931)
Cast: William Farnum
Tags: Drama
Length: 60min
Ten Nights In a Bar-room is as corny and hackneyed as its title, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Based on the warhorse cautionary stage play by Edwin Waugh (previously filmed six times during the silent era), the story concerns Joe Morgan...
The Phantom of the West [Serial] (1931)
Cast: William Desmond Tom Tyler Tom Dugan
Tags: Traditional Western Western Action
Length: min
Mascot Pictures' second all-talkie sound serial, Phantom of the West starred Tom Tyler as Jim Lester, a young man attempting to prove the innocence of the father of Mona Cortez (Dorothy Gulliver) in the murder of his own paterfamilias. Cortez (Frank...
Length: 68min
In this low-budget romantic musical, a sweet-young-thing heads for the South Seas to be with her betrothed. A typhoon brews when she learns that he has frittered away all of his money at the gambling tables and owes a huge debt to the owner of the...
Cast: Tom Santschi Fred Allen Harry Joe Brown
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 70min
Popular western star Ken Maynard crooned a couple of prairie tunes in this his first (part-)talkie, making Ken the screen's first singing cowboy. He plays a guide hired to escort a group of miners to a presumably prosperous site. Along the way, the...
Tags: Crime
Length: 63min
Trapped could well describe how former silent-movie queen Priscilla Dean must have felt when she was cast in this poverty-row quickie. Nick Stuart, the chauffeur for a gangster chieftain, falls in love with Nena Quartaro, the daughter of brassy...
Cast: Boris Karloff Dorothy Sebastian Richard Thorpe
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
Boris Karloff's appearance as an outlaw gives this minor Tiffany western its only claim to fame. Rex Lease, a general utility actor whom the studio mistakenly saw as a possible western star, played the lead, an outlaw who reforms after marrying a nice...
Cast: Leila Hyams
Length: 55min
Land of the Silver Fox was one of the last silent starring vehicles for celebrated canine star Rin Tin Tin. In this one, Rinty heads to the Canadian Northwest, where he befriends likeable fox trapper Carroll Nye. The "human" hero is in love with Leila...
Length: 60min
In this action-romance, a fireman captures a lovely little arsonist while heading out to fight a fire. He later has a debilitating accident and becomes a fire inspector upon the waterfront. There he discovers that his lover's father has been...
Cast: Florence Turner
Length: 60min
Law and the Man is based on a story by Roy Octavus Cohen, then popular for his magazine yarns about "Negro" life. This time, however, the audience is spared Mr. Cohen's outrageous approximations of "authentic" African American dialects and customs....
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