Ace High is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Lloyd Perl, and Lewis Sargent.
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Plot
Jean Rivard is a heroic Canadian Mountie who rescues his childhood sweetheart Annette Dupre from the clutches of an American sheriff. 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.
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.
Production
Ace High was the second of 17 Tom Mix feature films Lynn Reynolds directed over an eight-year period. The film was the first of three Tom Mix films shot in the Big Bear area.