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Bud's Recruit
4.9
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0h 26m
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1918
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)
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Robert Gordon
Reggie Gilbert
![Ruth Hampton pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Ruth Hampton
Edith
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Thomas Bellamy
Black Boy
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Ernest Butterworth Jr.
White Boy
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Mildred Davis
Edith's Sister
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Judge Willis Brown
Himself / Commentator
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