Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, adapting the biblical apocryphal story of Judith, a widow who seduces and beheads the besieging Assyrian general Holofernes to save her city. Made for the Biograph Company, it was among the first American films to run four reels in length at a time when most commercial releases were still a single reel, and Griffith used its larger scale to stage battle sequences and crowd scenes more ambitious than his earlier short films. It is regarded by film historians as an important step toward the feature length narrative filmmaking Griffith would push further the following year.
Facts
Release Year Classification
Original Language Connections
Created By
Source Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
In Medium
Source Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, originated there.
- Also in Language Atlas: English, original language there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
Infobox, released
1914 3 8
Infobox, country
United States
Judith of Bethulia, Description, original language
Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, adapting the biblical apocryphal story of Judith, a widow who seduces and beheads the besieging Assyrian general Holofernes to save her city.
In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B.
Created By: D.W. Griffith, Article lead sentence
Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic 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.
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.