The Survival of Dana (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
May 29, 1979Release Date
The Survival of Dana (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
May 29, 1979Release Date
Plot.
High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd.
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Cast & Crew.
Melissa Sue Anderson
Dana Lee
Robert Carradine
Donny Davis
Marion Ross
Madeline Lee
Talia Balsam
Rona Sims
Michael Pataki
Arnold Denker
Kevin Breslin
Roy 'Skates' Snider
Judge Reinhold
Francis 'Bear' Honfi
Dan Spector
Anthony Cavachi
Barbara Babcock
Lorna Sims
Shelby Leverington
Mrs. Blake
Dawn Jeffory
Joanie
Trent Dolan
Coach Tanner
Scott McGinnis
Paul
Gary Carlos Cervantes
Big
Paul Hampton
Bill Snider
Ellen Blake
Mrs. Honfi
Howard Vann
Mr. Honfi
Joshua Gallegos
Little Big
Reuben Cannon
CastingDirector
Edith Fields
Mrs. Davis
June Whitley Taylor
Principal
Laurie Zimmer
Clerk
Jennifer Starrett
Lynn
Frederic Forrest
Mr. Davis
Frank Norwood
Teleplay / Story
Tom Lazarus
Story
Jack Starrett
Director
Bruce Logan
Director of Photography
Craig Safan
Music
Peter Wooley
Art Direction
Marc Trabulus
Producer
Joy Wilson
Editor
Details.
This Movie Is About.
los angeles
transfer student
vandalism
high school
juvenile delinquent
peer pressure
troubled youth
teenager
Wiki.
Survival of Dana is a 1979 CBS made-for-TV film, a teenage drama starring Melissa Sue Anderson, who experiences conflicting social values when her parents divorce and she moves from Fargo, North Dakota to the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles.
The cast also includes Robert Carradine, Talia Balsam (Martin Balsam's only child), Marion Ross, and Judge Reinhold in his first film. Anderson was on hiatus from Little House on the Prairie and Ross (playing Dana's grandmother) was at the time a star on the series Happy Days. Survival of Dana was directed by Jack Starrett, whose only child, Jennifer, plays Lynn, one of the members of the antisocial clique.