The Jungle (1914)

The Jungle (1914)

1914-05-25 United States of America 55 Min. PG-13
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Overview

Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, gains a job in the Chicago stockyards. Once working at the stockyards he meets and marries Ona. But due to cut backs at the stockyards, loses his job, and they fall into financial hardship. Ona, in order to get money to feed their child, engages in sexual activity with her husband's foreman, Connor. Connor, rapes her. When Rudkus finds out about the affair, he throws Connor into a cattle pen where he is killed. While in prison Ona dies. When Rudkus gets out of prison he becomes an advocate for women via the Socialist Party. Considered a lost film.

Cast

George Nash is Jurgis Rudkus
Jurgis Rudkus
Julia Hurley is Elzbieta
Elzbieta
Alice Marc is Marija
Robert Paton Gibbs is Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Clarence Handyside is John Durham
E.P. Evers is Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)
Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)

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