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
Directed by Paul Sloane · Written by Elmer Harris
Cast
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Leatrice Joy Eve Corbin -
William Boyd Bill Stanley -
Robert Edeson Captain Corbin -
Walter Long Chang Fang - Eddie Harris Cookie (The Cook)
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Richard Carle Richard Stanley -
Sôjin Kamiyama Le Sing
Make it a double feature
2h 25m together
Eve's Leaves
Big Brother
Both from Paul Sloane.

