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JUDITH OF BETHULIA 1913 - Biograph Company

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JUDITH OF BETHULIA 1913 - (Partial restoration - Biograph) Arguably, the first feature film made in the U,S, as well as the first feature filmed in the San Fernando Valley, being filmed in Chatsworth Park, Chatsworth, California. Starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, the story is from 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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JUDITH OF BETHULIA 1913 - Biograph Company

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