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.

Cast

Wallace Brennan Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Robert Gordon Reggie Gilbert Ruth Hampton Edith Thomas Bellamy Black Boy Ernest Butterworth Jr. White Boy Mildred Davis Edith's Sister Judge Willis Brown Himself / Commentator

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