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As the Twig Is Bent

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.

Top Cast

  • Lee Shumway

    Lee Shumway

    George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)

  • Doris Baker

    Doris Baker

    George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)

  • Helen Jerome Eddy

    Helen Jerome Eddy

    Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)

  • Jack Holt

    Jack Holt

    Colonel Vail

  • Eleanor Blevins

    Eleanor Blevins

    Mrs. Booth

  • Velma Whitman

    Velma Whitman

    Tatuka

  • Melvin Mayo

    Melvin Mayo

  • Louis Fitzroy

    Louis Fitzroy

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.

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