Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

December. 13,1983      
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Richard Chamberlain as  Frederick Cook
Rod Steiger as  Robert E. Peary
Diane Venora as  Marie Fidele Hunt
Michael Gross as  James Troth
Samm-Art Williams as  Matt Henson
Louis Negin as  Maitre D'
Walter Massey as  Theodore Roosevelt
Donald Li as  Etuk
Donald Pilon as  Robert Bartlett
Timothy Webber as  Harry Whitney

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