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Winning a Continent

Winning a Continent1916

★6.054 minDramaHistory

This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.

Director

Writer

Gustav Preller Harold M. Shaw

Stars

Dick Cruikshanks Caroline Frances Cooke Jackie Turnbull

Cast26

D
Dick Cruikshanks
as Piet Retief
Caroline Frances Cooke
as Lenie Retief
J
Jackie Turnbull
as Piet Retief Junior
B
Bobby Rowson
as Willie van Rensburg
S
Stephen Ewart
as Gen. Pretorius
M.A. Wetherell
as Karel Landman
M
Mabel Rushton
as Mrs. Landman
E
Edna Flugrath
as Johanna Landman
J
Julius Royston
as Louis Perreira
C
Charles Kitts
as José Diaz
W
William Harbord
as Willem Faber
H
Helene Morris
as Mrs. Faber
H
Holger Petersen
as Jan Faber
Wyrley Birch
as Rev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)
V
Violet Dickens
as Mrs. Owen
L
Leon Morris
as Maritz
E
Eileen Gerard
as Jane Bird
N
N. Turnbull
as Mrs. Halley
S
Stephanus Maré
as Charl Cilliers
H
H.J. Hamlin
as Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)
N
Norman H Lee
as Rev. Daniel Lindley
A
A.O. Glisson
as Rev. Venables
T
Tom Zulu
as Dingaan
G
Goba
as Sobuza
M
Martha Rowson
as Katje Faber
Percy Marmont
as Horseman (uncredited)

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