Sunday, September 19, 2021

1981 - RACE FOR THE YANKEE ZEPHYR, passable action flick time killer.

There's a missing World War II plane.  It was full of gold.  It landed somewhere in the wilderness of New Zealand. Goofy drunk Donald Pleasence and his buddy Ken Wahl have found it.  Along with Pleasence's daughter played by Lesley Ann Warren the chase is on as they try to avoid a gang of evil guys lead by George Peppard. And so it goes.

This a seen it all before film. Pleasence plays another one of his oddball characters, Ken Wahl was a TV actor whose career never really took off on the big screen as they say and Lesley Ann Warren who was primarily a singer and a dancer is improbably cast as Pleasence's daughter. George Pepppard is also in this film for some reason camping it up as the head bad guy.

 

I guess if you are trapped in your house on a Saturday night and can't find anything to watch this will probably get you by.  The action is OK and there is a lot of it. The film's chief selling point is the on location filming in the wilds of New Zealand.

The film runs 91 minutes and was written by Everett De Roche. 


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