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.

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. 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.