The Red Ace

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1917 film

title: "The Red Ace" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1917-films", "1917-adventure-films", "american-silent-serial-films", "american-black-and-white-films", "american-silent-adventure-films", "universal-pictures-film-serials", "films-directed-by-jacques-jaccard", "1917-american-films", "english-language-adventure-films", "1910s-english-language-films"] description: "1917 film" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Ace" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1917 film ::

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Field	Value
name	The Red Ace
image	The Red Ace.jpg
caption	Advertisement for film
director	Jacques Jaccard
writer	Jacques Jaccard
starring	Marie Walcamp
Lawrence Peyton
distributor	Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
released
runtime	16 episodes
country	United States
language	Silent (English intertitles)
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Cast

Marie Walcamp as Virginia Dixon
Lawrence Peyton as Sergeant Sidney Winthrop (as Larry Peyton)
L. M. Wells as Pierre Fouchard
Bobby Mack as Patrick Kelly
Charles Brinley as Steele Heffern
Harry Archer as Dr. Hertzman
Noble Johnson as Little Bear

Chapter titles

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Silent Terror
Lure of the Unattainable
A Leap for Liberty
The Undercurrent
In Mid-Air
Fighting Blood
The Lion's Claws
Lair of the Beast
A Voice from the Dead; or, Voice from the Past
Hearts of Steel
The Burning Span
Overboard
New Enemies
The Fugitives
Hell's Riders
Virginia's Triumph

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Red Ace was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required, in Chapter 1, an attack by an ape-man be flashed and one on a chauffeur be cut; in Chapter 2, to flash an attack on a man; in Chapter 3, cut three scenes that showed a painting of a semi-nude woman and to flash a scene where the men in the foreground have a drink; in Chapter 4, cut a scene of a man at a bar shooting another man; in Chapter 6, cut the slugging of an Indian on the head with a rifle; in Chapter 7, cut two fight scenes, three struggle scenes of girl on stairs, all closeups of man with rope around neck, seven views of pulling of rope, view of man's body swinging in air, and the shooting of an Indian; in Chapter 11, the holdup and binding of the couple and two scenes of placing dynamite on the bridge; in Chapter 12, a closeup of the choking of a man; in Chapter 15, slugging a soldier and two scenes of men falling from horse; in Chapter 16, the last two scenes of dragging the young woman, man falling over after being shot, man falling over rock, two scenes of man laying on rock after being shot, man falling after shooting, and flash all scenes of gila monster.

References

"Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Red Ace''". silentera.com.
(September 1, 1917). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald Company.
(September 22, 1917). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.
(December 15, 1917). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.
(November 17, 1917). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.
(December 29, 1917). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.
(January 5, 1918). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.
(January 12, 1918). "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald.

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