Dick Cruikshanks
1874 - 1947De Voortrekkers
Harold M. Shaw
Dick Cruikshanks, Caroline Frances Cooke
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.
Winning a Continent
The Blue Lagoon
Dick Cruikshanks
Molly Adair, Arthur Pusey
The Blue Lagoon is a 1923 silent film adaptation of Henry De Vere Stacpoole's 1908 novel of the same name about children who come of age while stranded on a tropical island. This is the first telling of this often filmed story. This film was followed by remakes in 1949, 1980 and 2012.
The Blue Lagoon