Ace High (1918 film)

Ace High is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Lloyd Perl and Lewis Sargent.^[1]

Plot

Jean Rivard (Tom Mix) is a heroic Canadian Mountie who rescues his childhood sweetheart Annette Dupre (Kathleen O'Connor) from the clutches of an American sheriff.^[1] Action takes place primarily at a saloon called the Ace High. The bar is a popular hangout for criminals because at a moment's notice, it can be slid across the room from the United States into Canada, or vice versa as necessary.^{[2]: 188, 195}

Cast

• Tom Mix as Jean Rivard
  • Lloyd Perl as Jean Rivard (age 10)
  • Lewis Sargent as Jean Rivard (age 15)
• Kathleen O'Connor
  as Aneette Dupre
  • Virginia Lee Corbin as Annette Dupre (child)
• Lawrence Peyton as Jack Keefe
• Colin Chase as Baptiste Dupre
• Jay Morley as Harvey Wright
• Pat Chrisman as Louis Cartier

Themes

Set along the Alaska-Canadian border, the film explores the arbitrariness of legality on the fringes of nation-states through the cliche of the heroic Mountie saving a girl from a villainous sheriff.^[2]: 188

Production

Ace High was the second of 17 Tom Mix feature films Lynn Reynolds directed over an eight-year period.^[3] The film was the first of three Tom Mix films shot in the Big Bear area.^[4]

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