Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
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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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Richard Chamberlain
Frederick Cook
Diane Venora
Marie Fidele Hunt
Michael Gross
James Troth
Rod Steiger
Robert E. Peary
Timothy Webber
Harry Whitney
Tony Vogel
Skipper
Walter Massey
Theodore Roosevelt
Donald Pilon
Robert Bartlett
Bronwen Mantel
Mrs. Dudley
Vlasta Vrana
Murphy
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