Release Date

24 Oct, 1978

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

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Actors

Robert Fuller

Andrew Prine

Michael Callan

Diane McBain

John Anderson

John Doucette

Cindy Eilbacher

Royal Dano

Gregory Walcott

Lance LeGault

Whit Bissell

Peggy Stewart

Reid Cruickshanks

Robert Carricart

Rudy Diaz

Brian Erickson

John Hansen

Paul Grace

Barta Heiner

Augustin Vallejo

George Barrows

Crew

S.S. Schweitzer

Paul Staheli

James Simmons

Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Bob Summers

Trevor Jolly

James L. Conway

Henning Schellerup