(Eve's Leaves)

Content: 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

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Comedy,

Romance

Runtime:

75 minutes

Year:

1926

Directors:

Paul Sloane

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Production companies:

DeMille Pictures Corporation

Actors:

Eve Corbin

Bill Stanley

Captain Corbin

Chang Fang

Cookie (The Cook)

Crews:

Director

Theatre Play

Story

Adaptation