The Jungle
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.
Year: 1914
Genre: Drama
Studio: All Star Feature Film Corp.
Director: Augustus E. Thomas, Jack Pratt, George Irving
Cast: George Nash, Gail Kane, Julia Hurley, Robert Cummings, Alice Marc, Robert Paton Gibbs
Crew: Upton Sinclair (Novel), Benjamin S. Kutler (Scenario Writer), Augustus E. Thomas (Director), Jack Pratt (Director), Upton Sinclair (Executive Producer), George Irving (Director)
Runtime: 55 minutes
Release: May 25, 1914
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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