Judith of Bethulia Poster

Judith of Bethulia

Starring: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce

Writer: Frank E. Woods

Release Date:
March 8, 1914
Ratings:
6.1 / 10
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Companies:
American Mutoscope & Biograph

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.