Bud's Recruit
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.
Bud's Recruit
January 18, 1918
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Cast (7)
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
Crew (4)
Directing
King Vidor
Director
Writing
King Vidor
Scenario Writer
Judge Willis Brown
Writer
Production
Judge Willis Brown
Producer