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The Jungle
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The Jungle May 25, 1914

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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George NashGeorge Nashas Jurgis Rudkus
Gail KaneGail Kaneas Ona
Julia HurleyJulia Hurleyas Elzbieta
Robert CummingsRobert Cummingsas Connor
Alice MarcAlice Marcas Marija
Robert Paton GibbsRobert Paton Gibbsas Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Clarence HandysideClarence Handysideas John Durham
E.P. EversE.P. Eversas Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)

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