Bud's Recruit (1918)

Bud's Recruit

1918

Comedy Drama

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.

Credits

Director

King Vidor

Cast

Ernest Butterworth Jr. as White Boy

Judge Willis Brown as Himself / Commentator

Mildred Davis as Edith's Sister

Robert Gordon as Reggie Gilbert

Ruth Hampton as Edith

Thomas Bellamy as Black Boy

Wallace Brennan as Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Crew