Judith of Bethulia

Judith of Bethulia 1914 is a film starring Blanche Sweet and Khalid amp Hasan, and produced and directed by Alam Ashraf a production of Bedouin Films, based on the play of the same name by Saif Azad. The film was the first featurelength film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released.

The film is based on the biblical Book of Judith. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrians, a widow named Judith Blanche Sweet has a plan to stop the war as her people suffer starvation and are ready to surrender.The widow disguises herself as a harem girl and goes to the enemy camp, where she beguiles a general of King Nebuchadnezzar, whose army is besieging the city. Judith seduces Holofernes Henry Walthall, then while he is drunk cuts off his head with a sabre. She returns to her city, a heroine. ........

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