The Yesterday Machine
| The Yesterday Machine | |
|---|---|
 Promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Russ Marker |
| Screenplay by | Russ Marker |
| Produced by | Russ Marker |
| Starring | Tim Holt James Britton Jack Herman Ann Pellegrino Robert Bob Kelly |
| Cinematography | Ralph K. Johnson |
| Music by | Don Zimmers |
Production company | Carter Film Productions |
Release date | 1963 |
Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Yesterday Machine is a regional American science fiction film written, produced, and directed by Russ Marker. Various sources give the film's release date as 1963, 1965, and 1966. It stars Tim Holt, James Britton, Ann Pellegrino, and Jack Herman. In the story, a newspaper reporter, a nightclub singer, and the singer's sister fall into the hands of a mad Nazi physicist who has developed a time travel machine with which he intends to snatch Adolf Hitler from the past, teleport him into the present, and forever bring the world under the brutal domination of the Third Reich.
Premise
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine to go back to alter the outcome of World War II.
Cast
- Tim Holt as Police Lt. Partane
- James Britton as Jim Crandall
- Jack Herman as Professor Ernest Von Hauser
- Ann Pellegrino as Sandy De Mar
- Robert Bob Kelly as Detective Lasky
- Linda Jenkins as Margie De Mar
- Carol Gilley as Blonde Nurse
- Jay Ramsey as Howie Ellison
- Bill Thurman as Police detective
- Charles Young as Detective Wilson D. Blake
- Olga Powell as Didiyama
- Ramon Lence Legar as Ramon
Reception
Critic Paul Gaita panned the film. He wrote, "The camp value of this off-kilter science fiction effort from Texas-based low-budget filmmaker Russ Marker is seriously undermined by a dreary pace, comparable to a period educational film. This analogy reaches a terminal point when, late in the film, the scientist pulls out a chalkboard and begins drawing diagrams to help the captured reporter understand the workings of his machine and time travel in general. Holt, light years from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and even The Monster That Challenged the World, would take a step further down the exploitation evolutionary scale with his next and final film, Herschell Gordon Lewis' dreadful hillbilly satire This Stuff'll Kill Ya!"[1]
See also
References
- ^ Gaita, Paul. Allmovie by Rovi, film review. Accessed: August 8, 2013.
External links
- The Yesterday Machine at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› The Yesterday Machine at AllMovie
- The Yesterday Machine is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Yesterday Machine complete film on YouTube (public domain)
- The Yesterday Machine information site (with images)