Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
movie
Released December 13, 1983
Overview
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.
Cast
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
