Judith of Bethulia
08/03/1914
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.
Drama
History
War
Movie Information
Blanche Sweet
as Judith
Henry B. Walthall
as Holofernes
Mae Marsh
as Naomi
Robert Harron
as Nathan
Kate Bruce
as Judtih's Maid
Lillian Gish
as The Young Mother
Dorothy Gish
as Crippled Beggar
J. Jiquel Lanoe
as Eunuch Attendant
Gertrude Bambrick
as Assyrian Dancer
Harry Carey
as Assyrian Traitor
Lionel Barrymore
as Extra (uncredited)
