Winning a Continent

"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."

Cast

Dick Cruikshanks

as Piet Retief

Caroline Frances Cooke

as Lenie Retief

Jackie Turnbull

as Piet Retief Junior

Bobby Rowson

as Willie van Rensburg

Stephen Ewart

as Gen. Pretorius

M.A. Wetherell

as Karel Landman

Mabel Rushton

as Mrs. Landman

Edna Flugrath

as Johanna Landman

Julius Royston

as Louis Perreira

Charles Kitts

as José Diaz

William Harbord

as Willem Faber

Helene Morris

as Mrs. Faber

Holger Petersen

as Jan Faber

Wyrley Birch

as Rev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)

Violet Dickens

as Mrs. Owen

Leon Morris

as Maritz

Eileen Gerard

as Jane Bird

N. Turnbull

as Mrs. Halley

Stephanus Maré

as Charl Cilliers

H.J. Hamlin

as Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)

Norman H Lee

as Rev. Daniel Lindley

A.O. Glisson

as Rev. Venables

Tom Zulu

as Dingaan

Goba

as Sobuza

Martha Rowson

as Katje Faber

Percy Marmont

as Horseman (uncredited)

Crew

Harold M. Shaw

Director

Harold M. Shaw

Writer

Gustav Preller

Writer

J. Humphrey

Director of Photography