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Bud's Recruit

1918 Directed by King Vidor

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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Wallace Brennan

Wallace Brennan

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Bud Gilbert (as Wallis Brennan)

Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon

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Reggie Gilbert

Ruth Hampton

Ruth Hampton

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Edith

Thomas Bellamy

Thomas Bellamy

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Black Boy

Ernest Butterworth Jr.

Ernest Butterworth Jr.

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White Boy

Mildred Davis

Mildred Davis

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Edith's Sister

Judge Willis Brown

Judge Willis Brown

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Himself / Commentator

26 minutes

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