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The Jungle (1914)

★ 0.0/10 55 min Drama United States English
Writer: Margaret Mayo
Novel: Upton Sinclair
Scenario Writer: Benjamin S. Kutler
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

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

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