Bud's Recruit

Bud's Recruit

26 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 18, 1918

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

26 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 18, 1918

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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Boy City Film
Original title Bud's Recruit
Directors King Vidor
Writers Judge Willis Brown, King Vidor

Cast

Wallace Brennan

as Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Robert Gordon

as Reggie Gilbert

Ruth Hampton

as Edith

Thomas Bellamy

as Black Boy

Ernest Butterworth Jr.

as White Boy

Mildred Davis

as Edith's Sister

Judge Willis Brown

as Himself / Commentator