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.
- Fecha de estreno
- 25 de mayo de 1914
- País de origen
- Estados Unidos
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Reparto
- George Nash como Jurgis Rudkus
- Gail Kane como Ona
- Julia Hurley como Elzbieta
- Robert Cummings como Connor
- Alice Marc como Marija
- Robert Paton Gibbs como Antanas
- Clarence Handyside como John Durham
- E.P. Evers como Freddy Durham
- George Irving como Undetermined Role
- Harold Vermilyea como Undetermined Role
Equipo
- George Irving · Director(a)
- Jack Pratt · Director(a)
- Augustus Thomas · Director(a)
- Benjamin S. Kutler · Guionista
- Margaret Mayo · Guionista
- Upton Sinclair · Guionista
- Harry Raver · Productor(a)
- Archibald Selwyn · Productor(a)
- Augustus Thomas · Productor(a)