Judith of Bethulia

Name: Judith of Bethulia
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1914-03-08
Duration: 1 h 12 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce

1914

1h 12m

Drama History War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writer: Frank E. Woods

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.