The Jungle
movie

Released May 25, 1914
Genres:
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
Crew
Upton Sinclair
as
Executive Producer
George Irving
as
Director
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Margaret Mayo
as
Writer
Jack Pratt
as
Director
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Augustus E. Thomas
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Producer
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Archibald Selwyn
as
Producer
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Harry Raver
as
Producer
Upton Sinclair
as
Novel
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Augustus E. Thomas
as
Director
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Benjamin S. Kutler
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Scenario Writer