- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 1918-02-24
- Director: Kenean Buel
- Writers: Kenean Buel , M. Strauss
- Language: None
- Stars: Jane Lee , Katherine Lee , Albert Gran , Regina Quinn , Lucille Southerwaite , Leslie Austin , Harry Southard , Nora Cecil , William T. Hayes , Maggie Weston
- Runtime: 60 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: American Buds , American Buds (United States of America)
- Plot: Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers. Subsequently shot, the dying Duncan reveals that he is an Austrian agent, as well as the father of Katherine and Jane, having eloped years earlier with Ethel Harding, the colonel's older daughter. The colonel assumes the care of Jane and Katherine, and Dutton and Cecile are reconciled.
- IMDB:tt0008829
American Buds Cast · · · ALL
Kenean Buel
Director
Jane Lee
Jane
Katherine Lee
Katherine
Albert Gran
Col. Harding
Lucille Southerwaite
Ethel Harding
Leslie Austin
Capt. Bob Dutton
Nora Cecil
Emily