Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
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.
Directed by Robert Day · Written by I.C. Rapoport
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Cast
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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
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