Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

★ 5.9 1h 50m 36 votes IMDb
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In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand, hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When word gets around, a gang of crooks turns up and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there is 50 million dollars of gold in the wreck. Gibbie, his partner and helicopter pilot Barney, and his daughter Sally, are caught up in a race for the Yankee Zephyr.

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

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Cast

Ken Wahl
Ken Wahl as Barney Age 72 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effect...
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren as Sally Age 80 · New York City, New York, USA Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946), is an American actress and singer. For her performance in Victor/Victoria (1982), she was nominated for the Acadeny Award for Best Supporting Actress. Warren...
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence as Gilbert Carson Died 1995 · Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villaino...
George Peppard
George Peppard as Theo Brown Died 1994 · Detroit, Michigan, USA George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as struggling writer Paul Varjak in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and for playing comma...
Bruno Lawrence
Bruno Lawrence as Barker Died 1995 · Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK Born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England, he migrated with his family to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948. Lawrence spent most of...
Grant Tilly
Grant Tilly as Collector Died 2012 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Grant Leonard Ridgway Tilly (12 December 1937 – 10 April 2012) was a New Zealand stage, movie and television actor, set designer, teacher and artist..

Audience Reviews

r96sk 6/10 May 08, 2024
<em>'Race for the Yankee Zephyr'</em> is alright viewing, though its extremely uneven nature makes it difficult to get into.

Donald Pleasence gives a rather wacky performance as Barney, it looks like he was having fun acting in this - but, as a viewer, he only adds to the chaotic feel of this movie, which is kinda all over the place. Ken Wahl and Lesley Ann Warren are good, though George Peppard's antagonist isn't the best; Peppard himself is OK.

The plot moves at a real meh pace, as it doesn't really leave you a lot to latch on to. It is objectively a quite drawn out way of telling the story, which could've been wrapped up in short film form to be honest! There are worse movies out there no doubt, but this 1981 picture is very much a forgettable one!

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