title: Ace High (1918 film)
text: # 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.
  
  