Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Release: 1983-12-13
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 6.0
History
Adventure
Drama
TV 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.
Production Countries
Canada
United States of America
Production Companies
Robert Halmi
Cast
Tony Vogel
as Skipper
Richard Chamberlain
as Frederick Cook
Diane Venora
as Marie Fidele Hunt
Walter Massey
as Theodore Roosevelt
Timothy Webber
as Harry Whitney
Vlasta Vrana
as Murphy
Bronwen Mantel
as Mrs. Dudley
Rod Steiger
as Robert E. Peary
Michael Gross
as James Troth
Samm-Art Williams
as Matt Henson
Louis Negin
as Maitre D'
Donald Li
as Etuk
Donald Pilon
as Robert Bartlett
