Eve's Love Letters
About Eve's Love Letters
Eve (Agnes Ayres) is married to Adam (Forrest Stanley). A man calling himself Mr. X delivers a demand for $10,000 in exchange for letters she wrote before the wedding to a "Sir Oliver Hardy." She and her butler Anatole (Stan Laurel) go at midnight to a hunting lodge, watch the letters locked in a safe, and try to blow the lock with alcohol and a match. The struggle that follows throws the letters into an open fire. Adam, drunk at home until then, turns up and asks the two men if his wife is in the house.
Cast & crew
More about Eve's Love Letters
Leo McCarey directed. Stan Laurel wrote the story and the scenario. Hal Roach produced and presented. Pathé Exchange released it on 29 May 1927. Filmed 17–28 January 1927. Production number H-17. Richard C. Currier edited. Two reels, silent, 22 minutes. Jerry Mandy plays Mr. X, who is also the "Sir Oliver Hardy" of the letters. Fred Malatesta is his accomplice. Charlie Hall is the cab driver. A print exists, and Silent Era lists the U.S. rights as public domain.
Themes
Making
Laurel wrote himself the butler's part in a Hal Roach All-Star two-reeler built around Ayres, a year before the Laurel and Hardy series billing began.
Preservation
A print exists. Silent Era lists it as public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Sir Oliver Hardy" is a name in the blackmail letter, played by Jerry Mandy. Oliver Hardy the actor is not in the film.
- Agnes Ayres, usually a feature lead, is top billed. Laurel plays the butler who does the break-in.
- The safe is attacked with liquor and a lighted match. The letters burn in the grate anyway.
Scenes
- Mr. X hands over a ransom note for the letters to Sir Oliver Hardy.
- Anatole and Eve try to blow the lodge safe with alcohol and a match.
- The letters land in the fireplace as Adam arrives drunk.
Also available
- Internet Archive (eves-love-letters_1927)
- Wikimedia Commons (Eve's Love Letters (1927).webm)
