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The Donner Party is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 23 october 2009 with Crispin Glover
The Donner Party (2009)
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Add to a movie listThe Donner Party is a 2009 period drama film written and directed by T.J. Martin, and distributed by First Look International. It is based on the true story of the Donner Party, an 1840s westward traveling group of settlers headed for California. Becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with food increasingly scarce, a small group calling themselves "The Forlorn Hope" turned to cannibalism. The Forlorn was the working title for the film.
Actors
Crispin Glover
(William Foster)
Clayne Crawford
(William Eddy)
Mark Boone Junior
(Franklin Graves)
Christian Kane
(Charles Stanton)
Jamie Anne Allman
(Eleanor Eddy)
Alison Haislip
(Mary Graves)
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