Bud's Recruit (1918)

1918 · Silent film · 26 min · dir. King Vidor

• Comedy
• Drama

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director

King Vidor

Writer

Judge Willis Brown

Studio

Boy City Film

Released

1918-01-18

Running time

26 minutes

Cast & crew

• King Vidor Director
• WWallace Brennan
• Robert Gordon
• Ruth Hampton
• TThomas Bellamy
• EErnest Butterworth Jr.
• Mildred Davis
• JJudge Willis Brown

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