Judith of Bethulia 1914

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
Judith 

Henry B. Walthall
Holofernes 

Mae Marsh
Naomi 

Robert Harron
Nathan 

Kate Bruce
Judtih's Maid 

Lillian Gish
The Young Mother