Overview
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 as Judith
- Henry B. Walthall as Holofernes
- Mae Marsh as Naomi
- Robert Harron as Nathan
- Kate Bruce as Judtih's Maid
- Lillian Gish as The Young Mother
- Dorothy Gish as Crippled Beggar
- J. Jiquel Lanoe as Eunuch Attendant
- Gertrude Bambrick as Assyrian Dancer
- Harry Carey as Assyrian Traitor