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Eve's Leaves poster
Trailer
Eve's Leaves
7.0
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1h 15m
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1926
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Released
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 poster
Leatrice Joy
Eve Corbin
William Boyd poster
William Boyd
Bill Stanley
Robert Edeson poster
Robert Edeson
Captain Corbin
Walter Long poster
Walter Long
Chang Fang
Eddie Harris poster
Eddie Harris
Cookie (The Cook)
Richard Carle poster
Richard Carle
Richard Stanley
Sôjin Kamiyama poster
Sôjin Kamiyama
Le Sing

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