Movie Description
As the Twig Is Bent
(1915)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Wilbert Melville
- Writer : Julian La Mothe
- Cast : Lee Shumway,Doris Baker,Helen Jerome Eddy,Jack Holt,Eleanor Blevins,Velma Whitman,Melvin Mayo,Louis Fitzroy
Cast
George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)
George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
Colonel Vail
Mrs. Booth
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Facts
Original TitleAs the Twig Is Bent
Status Released
Release Information
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1915-11-25
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 30m
Production CompaniesLubin Manufacturing Company
Genres
- Drama
