Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
1983•1h 40m•6.0•Released
HistoryAdventureDramaTV Movie
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.
Director
Robert Day
Writer
I.C. Rapoport
Languages
English
Studio
Halcyon Studios
Cast
Richard Chamberlain
Frederick Cook
Rod Steiger
Robert E. Peary
Diane Venora
Marie Fidele Hunt
Michael Gross
James Troth
Samm-Art Williams
Matt Henson
Louis Negin
Maitre D'
Walter Massey
Theodore Roosevelt
Donald Li
Etuk
Donald Pilon
Robert Bartlett
Timothy Webber
Harry Whitney
Vlasta Vrana
Murphy
Tony Vogel
Skipper
Bronwen Mantel
Mrs. Dudley
Daniel Nalbach
Bridgeman
Production
Company
Halcyon Studios
Producer
Robert Halmi Jr.
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