Judith of Bethulia
Mar 08 1914
•1h 12m
•Drama, History, War
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.
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Blanche Sweet
Judith
Henry B. Walthall
Holofernes
Mae Marsh
Naomi
Robert Harron
Nathan
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