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

Cast

Leatrice Joy

Eve Corbin

William Boyd

Bill Stanley

Robert Edeson

Captain Corbin

Walter Long

Chang Fang

Eddie Harris

Cookie (The Cook)

Richard Carle

Richard Stanley

Sôjin Kamiyama

Le Sing