Judith of Bethulia

Movie · 1h 12m

Starring Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron

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.