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.
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
