Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Directed by

Christy Cabanne, D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film, adventure film, melodrama, biographical film, historical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 01m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A biblical story about a widow who risks her safety to save her people from an invading army. She uses her charm to get close to the enemy general and then kills him in his sleep.

dramatichistoricalmelodramaticepicslow-pacedsombertheatrical

What happens

Judith of Bethulia (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was a script adaptation written by Grace Adele Pierce (1858-1923) of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released. It is considered the earliest American made epic film. Shortly after its completion and a disagreement Griffith had with Biograph executives on making more future feature-length films, Griffith left Biograph, and took the entire stock company with him. Biograph delayed the picture's release until 1914, after Griffith's departure, so that it would not have to pay him in a profit-sharing agreement they had. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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