Eve's Leaves 1926
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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
- Released : 1926-01-10
- Runtime : 75 minutes
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- Stars : Leatrice Joy, William Boyd, Robert Edeson, Walter Long, Eddie Harris
- Director : Paul Sloane, Harry Chapman Ford, Jack Jevne, Elmer Harris
