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Bud's Recruit

🎞️ Movie 26 min US
โ˜… 5.8 /10 1918

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
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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
Mildred Davis
Edith's Sister
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Judge Willis Brown
Self
Self
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Judge Willis Brown
Self
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