Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

• Director: James L. Conway
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Docudrama
• Themes: Survival in the Wilderness
• Release Year: 1978
• Country: US
• Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

This made-for-TV movie relates the true story of the infamous Donner Party, the group of unlucky pioneers who were stranded in the Rockies by a snowstorm and had to eat the bodies of the dead to survive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Cast

Whit Bissell - Uncle Billy Graves; Michael Callan - William Eddy; Robert Carricart; Reid Cruickshanks - John Snyder; Royal Dano - Sutter; Rudy Diaz; John Doucette - George Donner; Cindy Eilbacher - Mary Graves; Robert Fuller - James Reed (Narrator); Lance Le Gault - Charles Stanton; Diane McBain - Margaret Reed; Jorge Moreno; Andrew Prine - Keyser; Gregory Walcott - Will McKutcheon; John Anderson - Patrick Breen; Peg Stewart - Mrs. Breen

Credit

Paul Staheli - Art Director, James L. Conway - Director, Trevor Jolley - Editor, Charles E. Sellier, Jr. - Executive Producer, Bob Summers - Composer (Music Score), Henning Schellerup - Cinematographer, James Simmons - Producer, S.S.(Paddy) Schweitzer - Screenwriter

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