Bud's Recruit (1918)

Release Date: 1918-01-18
Runtime: 0h 26min
Production Company: Boy City Film
Production Country: United States of America
Director: King Vidor

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.