As the Twig Is Bent (1915)

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Released:
1915-11-25

Overview:
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.

Director:
Wilbert Melville

Runtime:
0h 30min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Lee Shumway
    as
    George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)
  • Doris Baker
    as
    George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)
  • Helen Jerome Eddy
    as
    Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
  • Jack Holt
    as
    Colonel Vail
  • Eleanor Blevins
    as
    Mrs. Booth