Bud's Recruit

Bud's Recruit 1918

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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.

  • Released: 1918-01-18
  • Runtime: 26 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Mildred Davis, Thomas Bellamy, Judge Willis Brown, Wallace Brennan, Ernest Butterworth Jr., Robert Gordon
  • Director: King Vidor