Judith of Bethulia
AKA Her Condoned Sin in the USA
(1914) American
B&W : Four reels
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Kate Bruce, Harry Carey, Charles Hill Mailes, Alfred Paget, J. Jiquel Lañoe, Harry Hyde, Lionel Barrymore, Christy Cabanne, Edward Dillon, Thomas Jefferson, Elmo Lincoln, Antonio Moreno, Marshall Neilan, Gertrude Robinson

Biograph Company production; distributed by General Film Company. / Scenario by Frank E. Woods and D.W. Griffith, from the play by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Assistant director Christy Cabanne. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. Title design by Frank E. Woods. Edited by James Smith. / © 31 October 1913 by Biograph Company [LP1660]. © 17 November 1913 by Biograph Company. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in 1913 at Chatsworth, California, and in the Biograph studios. The film went unreleased for a year, only to be released at four reels, one reel at a time. Projected at Griffith’s standard 12 frames per second, the film lasts approximately one hour. Two reels of outtakes and extra intertitles were added by Biograph and the film was rereleased as Her Condoned Sin in 1917. References to this film being rereleased in 1919 as The Unpardonable Sin are erroneous. [?] Katherine Stone (in Barry-Griffith p. 43) lists a release date of 8 March 1914; Sklar-Movie p. 57 notes March 1914 as the release month; another source lists release month as June 1914.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: USA: California: Chatsworth

Listing updated: 18 September 2007.

References: Bardèche-History p. 65; Barry-Griffith pp. 16, 17, 26, 43; Blum-Silent pp. 34, 35; Bohn-Light pp. xix, 39, 52, 57, 260; Brownlow-Parade pp. 92, 339; Drew-Speaking pp. 213, 222, 223, 250, 286; Everson-American pp. 53, 56, 72, 73, 74, 369; Fell-History pp. 56, 59, 75; Lahue-Collecting pp. 22, 50; Lahue-Triangle pp. 35, 70; Limbacher-Feature p. 128; Maltin-Selected p. 1; McCaffrey-Guide p. 6; Mottram-Danish p. 113; Niver-Early p. 172; Niver-First p. 163; Ramsaye-Million p. 5; Robertson-Guinness p. 7; Robinson-Palace pp. 121, 130; Sinyard-Silent pp. 22, 23-24; Sklar-Movie pp. 44, 55-56, 57; Slide-Early p. 13; Smith-Epic pp. xv, 254; Spehr-American p. 2; Stedman-Serials p. 10; Tarbox-Lost pp. 182, 183, 279; Vermilye-Twenties p. 85; Weaver-Twenty pp. 144, 145.