Judith of Bethulia (1914)
In the 7th-century B.C., the Assyrians storm the walls of the Jewish city of Bethulia, leaving its people frightened and ready to hand their homes over to the invaders. As the Assyrians close in, the citizens are cut off from the outside world, and they began to starve. Seeing her people's desperation, Jewish widow Judith poses as a harem worker, winning her entry into the Assyrian camp, where she plans to kill their general, Holofernes.
- Date of release
- 1914-03-08
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
Casting
- Blanche Sweet — Judith
- Henry B. Walthall — Holofernes
- Mae Marsh — Naomi
- Robert Harron — Nathan
- Kate Bruce — Judtih's Maid
- Lillian Gish — The Young Mother
- Dorothy Gish — Crippled Beggar
- J. Jiquel Lanoe — Eunuch Attendant
- Gertrude Bambrick — Assyrian Dancer
- Harry Carey — Assyrian Traitor
- Lionel Barrymore — Extra (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was a script adaptation written by Grace Adele Pierce (1858-1923) of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released. It is considered the earliest American made epic film.
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