As the Twig Is Bent

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 25, 1915

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Lubin Manufacturing Company

Cast

Eleanor Blevins,Louis Fitzroy,Melvin Mayo,Helen Jerome Eddy,Lee Shumway,Velma Whitman,Jack Holt,Doris Baker

Director

Wilbert Melville

Writer

Julian La Mothe

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0328846