Bud's Recruit

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.

Cast

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Wallace Brennan

Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Robert Gordon

Reggie Gilbert

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Ruth Hampton

Edith

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Thomas Bellamy

Black Boy

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Ernest Butterworth Jr.

White Boy

Mildred Davis

Edith's Sister

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Judge Willis Brown

Himself / Commentator