When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Acting
The Mauch twins' synchronized mischief—Hollywood's real-life identical double act.
Direction
Seiler keeps 1930s child-star energy from becoming cloying.
Director
Lewis Seiler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Billy and Robert Mauch were genuine identical twins discovered by Warner Bros., who built entire franchises around their interchangeable mischief.
Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories were the Harry Potter of 1910s American boyhood—this film captures that vanished world of unsupervised neighborhood adventure.
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