Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)

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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.

Director: James L. Conway

Casts

	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

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