Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Robert Fuller

James Reed

Age : 90 | Popularity : 3%

Andrew Prine

Lewis Keyser

Age : 88 | Popularity : 15%

Michael Callan

William Eddy

Age : 88 | Popularity : 8%

Diane McBain

Margaret Reed

Age : 82 | Popularity : 10%

John Anderson

Patrick Breen

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

John Doucette

George Donner

Age : 73 | Popularity : 7%

Cindy Eilbacher

Mary Graves

Age : 65 | Popularity : 5%

Royal Dano

Sutter

Age : 71 | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Trevor Jolly
Production	Executive Producer	Charles E. Sellier Jr.
	Producer	James Simmons
Crew	Cinematography	Henning Schellerup
Writing	Writer	S.S. Schweitzer
Directing	Director	James L. Conway
Sound	Music	Bob Summers
Art	Art Direction	Paul Staheli
Department	Role	Name

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