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]
References
- ^ a b Langman, Larry (1992). A Guide to Silent Westerns. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-313-27858-7.
- ^ a b Brégent-Heald, Dominique (2015). Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada During the Progressive Era. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-7886-8.
- ^ Lussier, Tim (October 18, 2018). "Bare Knees" Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia Lee Corbin. McFarland. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-4766-7568-8.
- ^ More Magnificent Mountain Movies. W. Lee Cozad. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-9723372-3-6.
