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The Jungle

0 %|May 25, 1914|Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Upton Sinclair
Novel
Benjamin S. Kutler
Scenario Writer
Augustus E. Thomas
Director
Jack Pratt
Director
Upton Sinclair
Executive Producer
George Irving
Director
Harry Raver
Producer
Augustus E. Thomas
Producer

Cast

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George Nash
Jurgis Rudkus
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Julia Hurley
Elzbieta
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Robert Paton Gibbs
Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
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E.P. Evers
Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)