Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)


  • Genre: TV Movie, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
  • Release Date: 1978-10-24
  • Runtime: 1h 40min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Schick Sunn Classics
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: James L. Conway

Summary

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

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  • Robert Fuller

    as James Reed
  • Andrew Prine

    as Lewis Keyser
  • Michael Callan

    as William Eddy
  • Diane McBain

    as Margaret Reed
  • John Anderson

    as Patrick Breen
  • John Doucette

    as George Donner
  • Cindy Eilbacher

    as Mary Graves
  • Royal Dano

    as Sutter
  • Gregory Walcott

    as Will Mckutcheon
  • Lance LeGault

    as Charles Stanton
  • Whit Bissell

    as Uncle Billy Graves
  • Peggy Stewart

    as Mrs. Breen
  • Reid Cruickshanks

    as John Synder
  • Robert Carricart

    as
  • Rudy Diaz

    as
  • Brian Erickson

    as
  • John Hansen

    as
  • Paul Grace

    as
  • Barta Heiner

    as Sarah Fosdick
  • Augustin Vallejo

    as
  • George Barrows

    as
  • Richard Jury

    as
  • Elaine Daniel

    as
  • Michael Ruud

    as
  • Jorge Moreno

    as
  • Kristen Curry

    as Virginia Reed
Writing S.S. Schweitzer Writer
Production Charles E. Sellier Jr. Executive Producer
Production James Simmons Producer
Art Paul Staheli Art Direction
Directing James L. Conway Director
Sound Bob Summers Music
Crew Henning Schellerup Cinematography
Editing Trevor Jolly Editor

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