Judith of Bethulia
movie
Released March 08, 1914
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.
Cast
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)
