Bud's Recruit
1918 · ★ 4.8 · Dir. King Vidor
This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a little boy who can't wait to go fight against the Kaiser, and who sets an unrelentingly patriotic (and militaristic) example for his draft-age, feminized brother and peace-lovin' mother.
- Released
- 1918-01-18
- Runtime
- 26 min
- Language
- XX
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Top billed cast
Full cast & crew →Wallace Brennan
Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)
Robert Gordon
Reggie Gilbert
Ruth Hampton
Edith
Thomas Bellamy
Black Boy
Ernest Butterworth Jr.
White Boy
Mildred Davis
Edith's Sister
Judge Willis Brown
Himself / Commentator
