Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] (1981, Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, George Peppard, Bruno Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7940

British actor-producer David Hemmings went down under, to New Zealand, that is, to direct the good-looking if undemanding and largely fumbled 1981 action adventure movie Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] about the race for the $50 million in gold hidden in a DC3 aircraft that crashed in 1944.

In interesting against-type casting Ken Wahl and Donald Pleasence get to play the good guys and George Peppard plays the bad guy. It is a good cast, and the acting is fine. But the film’s pace is often slow, the yarn is routine and the best things about it are the actors and the New Zealand scenery, though there are some entertaining action and chase sequences to recommend it too.

Also in the cast are Lesley Ann Warren, Bruno Lawrence, Grant Tilly, Harry Rutherford-Jones and Robert Bruce.

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