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1914

The Jungle

Directed by George Irving

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.

Duration

0h 55m

Released

May 25, 1914

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Cast8

  • George Nash
  • Gail Kane
  • Julia Hurley
  • Robert Cummings
  • Alice Marc
  • Robert Paton Gibbs
  • Clarence Handyside
  • E.P. Evers

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