Movielogr
Bud's Recruit (1918)
Directed by King Vidor
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.
Length 26 minutes
Actors
Wallace Brennan | Robert Gordon | Ruth Hampton | Thomas Bellamy | Ernest Butterworth Jr. | Mildred Davis | Judge Willis Brown