The Jungle (1914)
Overview
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
Jurgis Rudkus
Gail Kane
Ona
Julia Hurley
Elzbieta
Robert Cummings
Connor
Robert Paton Gibbs
Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Clarence Handyside
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