Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Name: Judith of Bethulia
Director: D.W. Griffith
Released: 1914-03-08
Rating: 6.141
Cast: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce

DramaHistoryWar

72 min

Plot Summary

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.