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Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1914, March 8
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Harry Carey, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Dorothy Gish, Blanche Sweet, Kate Bruce, J. Jiquel Lanoe, Gertrude Bambrick

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.

Keywords:

attack bible disguise siege