Bud’s Recruit: A Judge Brown Story
(1917) American
B&W : Two reels / 1865 feet
Directed by King W. Vidor (King Vidor)

Cast: Wallis Brennan [Bud Gilbert], Robert Gordon [Reggie Gilbert], Ruth Hampton [Edith], Mildred Davis [Edith’s sister]

Boy City Film Company production; distributed by General Film Company. / Produced by Judge Willis Brown. Scenario by Judge Willis Brown. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / [?] King Vidor’s first Hollywood film? This was one of ten Judge Brown films Vidor directed. This earliest-known surviving Vidor film was preserved in the early 1990s through a cooperative effort of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Silent Society of Los Angeles, and the Society for Cinephiles.

Preparedness film.

Survival Status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].

Listing updated: 22 September 2007.

References: ClasIm-204 p. 4; ClasIm-223 p. 8.

Home Video: DVD.