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As the Twig Is Bent

Nov 25, 1915 · 30m
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Drama

PLOT

L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his father's dissolute ways. Both of them wind up serving in the Army and going to the Philippines -- George as an officer and West Point graduate, and Herbert as a lowly enlisted man who soon deserts to becomes the drunken love slave of a native girl.

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CAST

Lee Shumway
George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)
Doris Baker
George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
Jack Holt
Colonel Vail
Eleanor Blevins
Mrs. Booth
Velma Whitman
Tatuka
Melvin Mayo
Louis Fitzroy
Directed by Wilbert Melville

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Country
US

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