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The Jungle (1914)
Directed by George Irving, Jack Pratt, Augustus E. Thomas
Drama · 55m
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
Gail Kane
Julia Hurley
Robert Cummings
Robert Paton Gibbs
Clarence Handyside
Crew
- Director
- George Irving, Jack Pratt, Augustus E. Thomas
- Writer
- Margaret Mayo
- Novel
- Upton Sinclair
- Producer
- Augustus E. Thomas, Archibald Selwyn, Harry Raver
Details
- Release date
- 1914-05-25
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- All Star Feature Film Corp.