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Bud's Recruit

Film

Bud's Recruit

4.9

0h 26m

1918

Synopsis

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.

Director

King Vidor

ComedyDrama

Cast & Crew

Wallace Brennan

as Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon

as Reggie Gilbert

Ruth Hampton

as Edith

Thomas Bellamy

as Black Boy

Ernest Butterworth Jr.

as White Boy

Mildred Davis

Mildred Davis

as Edith's Sister

Judge Willis Brown

as Himself / Commentator

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