Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983)


  • Genre: History, Adventure, Drama, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1983-12-13
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 40min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Robert Halmi
  • Production Country: Canada, United States of America
  • Director: Robert Day
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Summary

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.

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  • 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
  • Vlasta Vrana

    as Murphy
  • Tony Vogel

    as Skipper
  • Bronwen Mantel

    as Mrs. Dudley
  • Daniel Nalbach

    as Bridgeman
Production Robert Halmi Sr. Executive Producer
Writing I.C. Rapoport Writer
Directing Robert Day Director
Production Robert Halmi Jr. Producer

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