Bud's Recruit

Name: Bud's Recruit
Released: 1918
Rating: 5.8

5.8 (6) ·1918 ·26 min ·Movie

Comedy Drama

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.