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, and Narrator
Andrew Prine
Lewis Keyser
Michael Callan
William Eddy
John Anderson
Patrick Breen
Diane McBain
Margaret Reed
James L. Conway
Director
John Doucette
George Donner
Cindy Eilbacher
Mary Graves
S.S. Schweitzer
Writer
James Simmons
Producer
Royal Dano
Sutter
Gregory Walcott
Will Mckutcheon
Bob Summers
Composer
Henning Schellerup
Cinematographer
Lance LeGault
Charles Stanton
Trevor Jolly
Editor
Whit Bissell
Uncle Billy Graves
Peggy Stewart
Mrs. Breen
Reid Cruickshanks
John Synder
Barta Heiner
Sarah Fosdick
Kristen Curry
Virginia Reed
Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Executive Producer
Paul Staheli
Art Direction
Rudy Diaz
Brian Erickson
John Hansen
Paul Grace
Jorge Moreno
Michael Ruud
Elaine Daniel
Richard Jury
Robert Carricart
Details.
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.