Winning a Continent Trailer

Winning a Continent Trailer (1916)

14 December 1916 Drama, History 54 mins

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.

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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

Holger Petersen

as Jan Faber

Wyrley Birch

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

Violet Dickens

as Mrs. Owen

H.J. Hamlin

as Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)

Norman H Lee

as Rev. Daniel Lindley

A.O. Glisson

as Rev. Venables

Goba

as Sobuza

International Releases Dates

South Africa 14 December 1916

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