Underplayed Gems

Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Judith of Bethulia poster
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
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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