"Finding it after four decades is quite a challenge…. but holding onto it is really an adventure!"28 November 1981Adventure, Action110 mins
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.
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to release it to the world.
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Māori tribes and the British colonial army.
A man's son becomes involved in drug use and criminal activity in rural New Zealand. The man embarks on a journey to seek assistance from others in an effort to get his son back before it's too late.
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty.
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A Forgotten Relic. A Dangerous Adventure.
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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 ...
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) she's a beaut
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) starring Ken Wahl Lesley Ann Warren Donald Pleasence and George Peppard.
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) it's all yours
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) starring Ken Wahl Lesley Ann Warren Donald Pleasence and George Peppard.
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) piece of pudding
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) starring Ken Wahl Lesley Ann Warren Donald Pleasence and George Peppard.
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) beautiful brown eyes
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) starring Ken Wahl Lesley Ann Warren Donald Pleasence and George Peppard.
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A female teacher spots one of her students being molested by a vagrant. But her rescue attempt fails as the vagrant drags the teacher into an empty classroom and sexually assaults her.
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A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Two swordsmen from separate sects band together to kill Ruthless Chi, head of another sect.But did he really die? Events show that the Ruthless killer stills controls the strings and its up to the swordsmen to reveal his true identity.
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