Ace High (1918 film)
# 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 $necessary.^{:188,195}$

## 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 $sheriff.^{:188}$

## 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.

