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Bud's Recruit
MovieTitle | Bud's Recruit |
User score | 4.9 |
Release date | Jan 18, 1918 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama |
Director | King Vidor |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Boy City Film |
Run time | 26 min. |
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.