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