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.
Lionel Barrymore
Extra (uncredited)Lillian Gish
The Young MotherHarry Carey
Assyrian TraitorMae Marsh
NaomiDorothy Gish
Crippled BeggarBlanche Sweet
JudithHenry B. Walthall
HolofernesKate Bruce
Judtih's Maid