The Jungle 1914
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.
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.
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Full Cast & CrewGN
George Nash... Jurgis Rudkus
GK
Gail Kane... Ona
... Elzbieta
... Connor
AM
Alice Marc... Marija
... Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
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Release Date:
May 25, 1914 (United States)
Run Time:
55`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released

Cast & Crew of
The Jungle
Directors & Credit Writers
Cast
GN
George Nash... Jurgis Rudkus
GK
Gail Kane... Ona
... Elzbieta
... Connor
AM
Alice Marc... Marija
... Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
... John Durham
EE
E.P. Evers... Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)