Judith of Bethulia

Mar 8, 1914

1h 12m

★ 6.2

Overview

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.

Genres

Drama

History

War

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

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Cast

Judith

Blanche Sweet

Holofernes

Henry B. Walthall

Naomi

Mae Marsh

Nathan

Robert Harron

Judtih's Maid

Kate Bruce

The Young Mother

Lillian Gish

Crippled Beggar

Dorothy Gish

Eunuch Attendant

J. Jiquel Lanoe

Assyrian Dancer

Gertrude Bambrick

Assyrian Traitor

Harry Carey

Extra (uncredited)

Lionel Barrymore

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