The Jungle (1914)
75 min
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
- May 25, 1914
- Country of origin
- United States
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
- Clarence Handyside as John Durham
- E.P. Evers as Freddy Durham
- George Irving as Undetermined Role
- Harold Vermilyea as Undetermined Role
Crew
- George Irving · Director
- Jack Pratt · Director
- Augustus Thomas · Director
- Benjamin S. Kutler · Writer
- Margaret Mayo · Writer
- Upton Sinclair · Writer
- Harry Raver · Producer
- Archibald Selwyn · Producer
- Augustus Thomas · Producer