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.
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Lee Shumway
George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)
Also in
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
The Widow from Chicago
Doris Baker
George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)
Also in
Ella Cinders
The Water Dog
Helen Jerome Eddy
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
Known for
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Mata Hari
Jack Holt
Colonel Vail
Known for
Cat People
They Were Expendable
Eleanor Blevins
Mrs. Booth
Also in
The Love Transcendent
The New Schoolmarm of Green River
Velma Whitman
Tatuka
Also in
The Quack
East Lynne
Melvin Mayo
Also in
Mentioned in Confidence
The Red Virgin
Louis Fitzroy
Also in
Blind Husbands
Barbara Frietchie
Wilbert Melville Director · Julian La Mothe Writer
United States release November 25, 1915 · Produced in United States
Production
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · November 25, 1915
Theatrical
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