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