A gay ice skating anime made me believe in love again
'Yuri!!! on Ice' turned queerbaiting on its head and gave me hope when I needed it the most.
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
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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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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Genre:TV Movie, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Written By:S.S. Schweitzer
In Theaters:10/24/1978
Box Office:
Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Schick Sunn Classics
Cast
James L. Conway
Director
Robert Fuller
James Reed
Andrew Prine
Lewis Keyser
Michael Callan
William Eddy
Diane McBain
Margaret Reed
John Anderson
Patrick Breen
John Doucette
George Donner
Cindy Eilbacher
Mary Graves
Royal Dano
Sutter
Gregory Walcott
Will Mckutcheon
Lance LeGault
Charles Stanton
Whit Bissell
Uncle Billy Graves
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