The Jungle (1914)
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.
Release Date: 1914-05-25
Runtime: 55 minutes
Director: Augustus E. Thomas
Top Cast
- George Nash as Jurgis Rudkus
- Gail Kane as Ona
- Julia Hurley as Elzbieta
- Robert Cummings as Connor
- Alice Marc as Marija
- Robert Paton Gibbs as Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
- Clarence Handyside as John Durham
- E.P. Evers as Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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