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Glory & Honor
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780622692
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0780622693
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: May 04, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: March 01, 1998
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Editorial Review:
This moving film, originally produced for cable channel TNT, concerns the rocky collaboration of American explorer Robert Peary (Henry Czerny) and his African American valet turned adventurer, Mathew Henson (Delroy Lindo). Over many years and several costly failed attempts to reach the North Pole, Peary loses pieces of his body from frostbite and almost sacrifices his family for the sake of standing "where there is no east or west," at the top of the world. Henson loses some things, too, particularly Inuit friends whose fascination with his black skin leads them to love and honor him as a lost cousin--a regard unlike anything Henson had ever known in white America. But Henson also gains a lot: a broader sense of his possibilities and passions and a respect for his capacity to dream. He heroically saves Peary more than once on grueling expeditions that have to be abandoned before the Pole is in reach, and over time he demands and receives respect from his selfish employer. Both lead actors are wonderful: Czerny has never let the camera see through his cold eyes quite the way he does here and Lindo does a magnificent job portraying a man who evolves--at all sorts of peril--from the sum of others' ideas about him into a hero on his own terms. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - It was excellent.
I want to share this movie with my 5th grade class. We are reading his biography in class and it woud be great to see the comparisons.
Rating: - Matthew Henson finally has his day on screen!
Matthew Henson is one of the most beloved African American heros. His 18 year partnership with Navy Lt. Robert Peary made it possible in 1909 for an expedition to reach the North Pole. Only today do we understand how difficult and dangerous is this 1,000 mile route over the frozen ocean. Those who have sought to repeat the adventure in modern times have all gone only half way and had to be air rescued! Henson is a great icon to African Americans because of his impeccable character. He was highly ... Read More
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