As the Twig Is Bent

As the Twig Is Bent (1915) is a drama film directed by Wilbert Melville rated 9.0/10.

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.

Cast

Lee Shumway

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

Doris Baker

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

Helen Jerome Eddy

Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)

Jack Holt

Colonel Vail

Eleanor Blevins

Mrs. Booth

Velma Whitman

Tatuka

Melvin Mayo

Louis Fitzroy