Eve's Leaves

Overview

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 10, 1926

Original language

English

Production

DeMille Pictures Corporation

Cast

Leatrice Joy,Walter Long,Eddie Harris,Robert Edeson,William Boyd,Sôjin Kamiyama,Richard Carle

Director

Paul Sloane

Writer

Harry Chapman Ford,Jack Jevne,Elmer Harris

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0016827