Even as Eve

{{short description|1920 film}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{infobox film | name = Even as Eve | image = Even as Eve (1920) - 1.jpg | caption = Newspaper advertisement | director = Chester De Vonde<br>B. A. Rolfe | producer = B. A. Rolfe | writer = Charles Logue | starring = Grace Darling | music = | cinematography = Arthur A. Cadwell, Conrad Wells | editing = | studio = A. H. Fischer Features, Inc. | distributor = Associated First National Pictures | released = {{Film date|1920|1|15}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

'''''Even as Eve''''' is a 1920 American silent drama film by A. H. Fischer Features and distributed by Associated First National Pictures. Produced by B. A. Rolfe, the film was directed by Rolfe and Chester De Vonde, with Arthur A. Cadwell and Conrad Wells (as A. Fried) as cinematographers. It was filmed at the former Thanhouser Company studios in New Rochelle, New York. Some exterior scenes were filmed in the New York Adirondack Mountains and on a Long Island estate. It was based on the short story "The Shining Band" by Robert W. Chambers, and adapted by Charles Logue.<ref name="AFI">{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=17734 |title=Even As Eve |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=September 3, 2016}}</ref>

==Plot== Eileen O’Hara lives with her father as part of a religious cult known as the Shining Band, based in a compound in the Adirondack Mountains. Her father remains embittered by her mother's infidelity years earlier. Peyster Sproul, president of the Sagamore Club, seeks to buy the O’Hara land to develop it into a summer resort. Sproul is the man with whom Eileen's mother had the affair, and when Mr. O’Hara recognizes him, the two argue, leading to Mr. O’Hara's death. Sproul then bribes Amasu Munn, the dishonest cult leader, to obtain an illegitimate claim on the property. Sproul tries to steal the deed from Eileen but is thwarted by young Dr. Lansing who has become enamored with Eileen. She then marries Dr. Lansing.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Grace Darling as Eileen O'Hara * Ramsey Wallace as Dr. Lansing * E. J. Ratcliffe as Peyster Sproul * Sally Crute as Agatha Sproul * Marc McDermott as O'Hara * Gustav von Seyffertitz as Amasu Munn * John Goldsworthy as De Witt Courser * John L. Shine as Colonel Hyssop * Robert Paton Gibbs as Major Brent * Diana Allen }}

==References== {{reflist}} '''Sources''' *[http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/dliterature/authors/chambers/works/rwcbibl-films1920.htm Miskatonic "Even As Eve"] *[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27374/27374-h/27374-h.htm Chambers, Robert W. (1904), ''A Young Man in a Hurry'', New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers], at The Gutenberg Project

==External links== {{commons category|Even as Eve}} * {{IMDb title|11921}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Even As Eve}} Category:1920 films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language crime drama films Category:1920 crime drama films Category:Films based on works by Robert W. Chambers Category:First National Pictures films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by B. A. Rolfe Category:1920 American films Category:American silent crime drama films Category:1920 English-language films