Bud's Recruit poster
Basic Info
Release: January 18, 1918
Rating: ⭐ 4.9/10 (4 votes)

Bud's Recruit

1918 ⭐ 4.9/10 4 votes
Overview

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.

Genres
Comedy Drama
Production Countries
  • United States of America
Spoken Languages
  • English en
  • No Language xx

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Cast
Wallace Brennan
Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon
Reggie Gilbert
Ruth Hampton
Edith
Thomas Bellamy
Black Boy
Ernest Butterworth Jr.
White Boy
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis
Edith's Sister
Judge Willis Brown
Himself / Commentator
Crew
King Vidor
King Vidor
Director
Judge Willis Brown
Writer
Judge Willis Brown
Producer
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