Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 24, 1978Release Date
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 24, 1978Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Robert Fuller
James Reed

Andrew Prine
Lewis Keyser

Michael Callan
William Eddy

Diane McBain
Margaret Reed

John Anderson
Patrick Breen

John Doucette
George Donner

Cindy Eilbacher
Mary Graves

Royal Dano
Sutter

Gregory Walcott
Will Mckutcheon

Lance LeGault
Charles Stanton

Whit Bissell
Uncle Billy Graves

Peggy Stewart
Mrs. Breen

Reid Cruickshanks
John Synder

Barta Heiner
Sarah Fosdick

Kristen Curry
Virginia Reed

S.S. Schweitzer
Writer

Paul Staheli
Art Direction

James Simmons
Producer

Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Executive Producer

Bob Summers
Music

Trevor Jolly
Editor

James L. Conway
Director

Henning Schellerup
Cinematography

Paul Grace

Augustin Vallejo

Jorge Moreno

Michael Ruud

George Barrows

Richard Jury

Elaine Daniel

Robert Carricart

John Hansen

Brian Erickson

Rudy Diaz
Details.
Release DateOctober 24, 1978
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Genres
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Wiki.
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival is a 1978 American historical drama television film about the Donner Party, directed by James L. Conway, written by S. S. Schweitzer, and produced by Schick Sunn Classic Pictures as a part of their Classics Illustrated series. It aired on NBC on October 24, 1978.