Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

Dec 13, 1983

1h 40m

★ 6.0

Overview

Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.

Genres

History

Adventure

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Robert Halmi

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Cast

Frederick Cook

Richard Chamberlain

Robert E. Peary

Rod Steiger

Marie Fidele Hunt

Diane Venora

James Troth

Michael Gross

Matt Henson

Samm-Art Williams

Maitre D'

Louis Negin

Theodore Roosevelt

Walter Massey

Etuk

Donald Li

Robert Bartlett

Donald Pilon

Harry Whitney

Timothy Webber

Murphy

Vlasta Vrana

Skipper

Tony Vogel

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