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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

1983•1h 40m•6.0/10
HistoryAdventureDramaTV Movie

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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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Robert Halmi

Language

EN

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Released

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Richard Chamberlain

Richard Chamberlain

Frederick Cook

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

Robert E. Peary

Diane Venora

Diane Venora

Marie Fidele Hunt

Michael Gross

Michael Gross

James Troth

Samm-Art Williams

Samm-Art Williams

Matt Henson

Louis Negin

Louis Negin

Maitre D'

Walter Massey

Walter Massey

Theodore Roosevelt

Donald Li

Donald Li

Etuk

Donald Pilon

Donald Pilon

Robert Bartlett

Timothy Webber

Timothy Webber

Harry Whitney

Vlasta Vrana

Vlasta Vrana

Murphy

Tony Vogel

Tony Vogel

Skipper

Bronwen Mantel

Bronwen Mantel

Mrs. Dudley

Daniel Nalbach

Bridgeman

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