Movie

Bud's Recruit

★ 5.8/10 · 6 votes 1918 0h 26m Released

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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.

Cast

W Wallace Brennan Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Bre Robert Gordon Reggie Gilbert R Ruth Hampton Edith T Thomas Bellamy Black Boy E Ernest Butterworth Jr. White Boy Mildred Davis Edith's Sister