Movie Description
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
(1978)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : James L. Conway
- Producer : James Simmons
- Writer : S.S. Schweitzer
- Editor : Trevor Jolly
- Cast : Robert Fuller,Andrew Prine,Michael Callan,Diane McBain,John Anderson,John Doucette,Cindy Eilbacher,Royal Dano,Gregory Walcott,Lance LeGault,Whit Bissell,Peggy Stewart,Reid Cruickshanks,Robert Carricart,Rudy Diaz,Brian Erickson,John Hansen,Paul Grace,Barta Heiner,Augustin Vallejo,George Barrows,Richard Jury,Elaine Daniel,Michael Ruud,Jorge Moreno,Kristen Curry
Cast
James Reed
Lewis Keyser
William Eddy
Margaret Reed
Patrick Breen
George Donner
Mary Graves
Sutter
Will Mckutcheon
Charles Stanton
Uncle Billy Graves
Mrs. Breen
John Synder
Sarah Fosdick
Virginia Reed
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Facts
Original TitleDonner Pass: The Road to Survival
Status Released
Release Information
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1978-10-24
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 40m
Production CompaniesSchick Sunn Classics
Genres
- TV Movie
- Adventure
- Drama
- History
- Western
