Bud's Recruit

Bud's Recruit — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 18, 1918
• Runtime
• 26 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• King Vidor

Bud's Recruit — Cast

W

Wallace Brennan Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan) Robert Gordon Reggie Gilbert

R

Ruth Hampton Edith

T

Thomas Bellamy Black Boy

E

Ernest Butterworth Jr. White Boy Mildred Davis Edith's Sister

J

Judge Willis Brown Himself / Commentator