| The Donner Party (2009) | |
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| Directed by | Terrence Martin |
| Screenplay by | Terrence Martin |
| Produced by | Mark Costa Ted Meyer John Emerson Moore |
| Starring | Crispin Glover Clayne Crawford Mark Boone Junior Christian Kane |
| Cinematography | Seamus Tierney |
| Edited by | Richard Conkling John Emerson Moore |
| Music by | Eimear Noone |
Production company | Anacapa Entertainment |
| Distributed by | First Look International |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Donner Party is a 2009 American period Western drama film written and directed by Terrence Martin (credited as T.J. Martin), and starring Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Michele Santopietro, Mark Boone Junior, and Christian Kane. 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.[1]
- ^ Voeller, Carey R. (2009). "'A man is a fool who prefers poor California beef to human flesh': (Re)Definitions of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century US Donner Party Literature". Western American Literature. 44 (3): 219.