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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

TV Movie, Adventure, Drama, History, Western

1h 40m

October 24, 1978 (46 years ago)

Overview

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller

James Reed

Birthday: July 29, 1933

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Andrew Prine

Andrew Prine

Lewis Keyser

Birthday: February 14, 1936

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Michael Callan

Michael Callan

William Eddy

Birthday: November 22, 1935

42 October 10, 2022 (86)
Diane McBain

Diane McBain

Margaret Reed

Birthday: May 18, 1941

37 December 21, 2022 (81)
John Anderson

John Anderson

Patrick Breen

Birthday: October 20, 1922

56 August 7, 1992 (69)
John Doucette

John Doucette

George Donner

Birthday: January 21, 1921

57 August 16, 1994 (73)
Cindy Eilbacher

Cindy Eilbacher

Mary Graves

Birthday: July 7, 1958

2067
Royal Dano

Royal Dano

Sutter

Birthday: November 16, 1922

55 May 15, 1994 (71)
Gregory Walcott

Gregory Walcott

Will Mckutcheon

Birthday: January 13, 1928

50 March 20, 2015 (87)
Lance LeGault

Lance LeGault

Charles Stanton

Birthday: May 2, 1935

43 September 10, 2012 (77)