As the Twig Is Bent

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

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

Velma Whitman

As Tatuka

Melvin Mayo

As

Louis Fitzroy

As