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Judith of Bethulia

6.1 72 mins Drama   History   War   1914
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

Release Date: 08 Sun, Mar 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.

Casts of Judith of Bethulia

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)

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