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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (TV)

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Original title

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Year

1978

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

James L. Conway

Screenwriter

S.S. Schweitzer

Cast

Music

Bob Summers

Cinematography

Henning Schellerup

Producer

Schick Sunn Classics. Distributor: Paris Video Filmes, Media Home Entertainment, VCI Home Video, Video Treasures, Viacom, Starmaker Entertainment [USA]. Broadcast by: NBC

Genre

Drama | TV Movie. 19th Century

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.

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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (TV)

1978

James L. Conway