Bud's Recruit
About Bud's Recruit
Bud Gilbert is too young to fight the Kaiser and will not wait. He sets himself as the patriotic example in the house and works on his draft-age brother Reggie, and on their mother's peace stance.
Cast & crew
More about Bud's Recruit
King Vidor directed this two-reel home-front comedy. Robert Gordon plays Reggie Gilbert. English Wikipedia also names Wallace Brennan as Bud Gilbert. Mildred Davis is in the catalog cast. A print is at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. In February 2020 it was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in a Vidor retrospective. Wikidata times it at 26 minutes.
Themes
Background
A 1918 American comedy about the draft and a mother who argues for peace, made while the United States was in the war.
Preservation
A print survives at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Notes
- It is the earliest Vidor film that survives.
- Vidor later directed The Big Parade and The Crowd.
- The Berlin screening was part of a career retrospective, not a premiere.
Scenes
- The underage Bud pushes his older brother toward the war his mother does not want.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-buds-recruit)
