Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Release Date: 1983-12-13
Rating : 6/10
Duration : 100 minutes
Genres : History, Adventure, Drama, TV Movie
Director : Robert Day
Writer : I.C. Rapoport
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
Rod Steiger
Diane Venora
Michael Gross
Samm-Art Williams
Louis Negin