Zeus

Race For The Yankee Zephyr (1981)

• Director
  • David Hemmings
• Writer
  • Everett De Roche(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Ken Wahl
  • Lesley Ann Warren
  • Donald Pleasence

  Actor David Hemmings made one of his periodic forays into directing with the lightning-paced Race For the Yankee Zephyr. The film pits deer hunters against a group of unscrupulous businessmen. Their mutual goal is a reserve of gold, hidden somewhere in the Australian wilds. Ken Wahl and Leslie Ann Warren are the Hollywood-bred "box office insurance" in this Australian/New Zealand coproduction. Race for the Yankee Zephyr was first shown in America via pay-cable, where it carried no rating but was preceded with a warning vis-a-vis violence and strong language.