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

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

Drama Adventure History TV Movie
Release Date: 1983, December 13
Directors: Robert Day
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Robert Halmi
Cast: Donald Li, Diane Venora, Tony Vogel, Timothy Webber, Bronwen Mantel, Michael Gross, Rod Steiger, Samm-Art Williams, Vlasta Vrana, Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pilon, Louis Negin

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.

Keywords:

expedition north pole historical figure