Eve's Leaves

Eve's Leaves

75 mins | Jan. 10, 1926

After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An over-protective sea captain forces his daughter Eve to pass as a boy. But she craves romance and sets her sights on a handsome American tourist (Boyd) who still thinks she's a boy when she shanghais him aboard her father's ship; then a lustful Chinese pirate (Walter Long) takes them prisoner. Joy, an appealing comedienne whose career nosedived when talkies came in, sparkles in both her tomboy and love-hungry phases. -Martin Rubin, Gene Siskel Film Center

Eve's Leaves

75 mins | Jan. 10, 1926

Eve's Leaves
After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An over-protective sea captain forces his daughter Eve to pass as a boy. But she craves romance and sets her sights on a handsome American tourist (Boyd) who still thinks she's a boy when she shanghais him aboard her father's ship; then a lustful Chinese pirate (Walter Long) takes them prisoner. Joy, an appealing comedienne whose career nosedived when talkies came in, sparkles in both her tomboy and love-hungry phases. -Martin Rubin, Gene Siskel Film Center
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title Eve's Leaves
Directors Paul Sloane
Writers Harry Chapman Ford, Elmer Harris, Jack Jevne

Cast

Leatrice Joy

as Eve Corbin

William Boyd

as Bill Stanley

Robert Edeson

as Captain Corbin

Walter Long

as Chang Fang

Eddie Harris

as Cookie (The Cook)

Richard Carle

as Richard Stanley

Sôjin Kamiyama

as Le Sing