The Jungle
The Jungle
1914
Drama
Synopsis
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.
Credits
Director
Augustus E. Thomas
George Irving
Jack Pratt
Cast
Alice Marc as Marija
Clarence Handyside as John Durham
E.P. Evers as Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)
Gail Kane as Ona
George Nash as Jurgis Rudkus
Julia Hurley as Elzbieta
Robert Cummings as Connor
Robert Paton Gibbs as Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Crew
Upton Sinclair (Executive Producer)
Upton Sinclair (Novel)
Archibald Selwyn (Producer)
Augustus E. Thomas (Producer)
Harry Raver (Producer)
Benjamin S. Kutler (Scenario Writer)
Margaret Mayo (Writer)
Original Poster
The Jungle - Original Poster
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