The Yesterday Machine (1963)

A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.

Director:

Russ Marker

Writer:

Russ Marker

Stars:

Tim Holt, James Britton, Jack Herman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tim Holt	...	Police Lt. Partane
James Britton	...	Jim Crandall
Jack Herman	...	Professor Ernest Von Hauser
Ann Pellegrino	...	Sandy De Mar
Robert Bob Kelly	...	Detective Lasky
Linda Jenkins	...	Margie De Mar
Carol Gilley	...	Blonde Nurse
Jay Ramsey	...	Howie Ellison
Bill Thurman	...	Police detective
Charles Young	...	Doctor Wilson D. Blake
Olga Powell	...	Didiyama
Bob Brown
Marvin Seabright
Lee Arthur
Patrick Cranshaw	...	(as Joseph 'Pat' Cranshaw)

Storyline

A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.

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Plot Keywords:

time machine | nazi | lecture | confederate uniform | newspaper reporter | 

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carter Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Goofs

Twice during the Nazi scientist's time travel lecture, the chalk diagrams he draws change.

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Soundtracks

"Leave Me Alone"
Words and Music by Russ Marker
Arrangement by Jerry Hunt
Vocalist: Ann Pellegrino

User Reviews

This Is Really Not a Horrible, Horror Movie!

This movie, its poor production values and picture qualities, and absolutely ABYSMAL Sound qualities aside, is actually a pretty effective sci-fi Horror story, told to the viewer in a pretty much intelligent manner.

I have always liked the actor TIM HOLT, going back to his playing the clean-cut young Prospector in "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" with Bogart and Walter Huston. In this flick, his Police Lieutenant Partane character adds some semblance of credibility to his role and the overall storyline.

And Jack Herman, the apparently LIFELONG Yiddish Theatre Actor, who plays the "ESCAPED, VIRULENT NAZI SCIENTIST, Ernest VON HAUSER," absolutely steals the show, with his Mad Scientist's "Time-Travel Slave and Death Camp" of a deserted farmhouse, in Texas, no less!(* Actually, the Lonestar State has always been one of THE "All-American" Locales, for great MONSTER, HORROR and SCI-FI, Cinematic "Carnage"!)

All the usual mad Nazi "thoughts" and CRUELTY is there of course, in "The Yesterday Machine," yet there is indeed thoughtful DIALOGUE, as Mr. HERMAN'S Von Hauser character explains the "real science" behind time travel, to the heroic news gatherer-guy, "Jimmy Crandell," whom I believe is played by James Britton.

There are a couple of VERY WEAK, climactic plot points as the film closes out, but this one is still an A-OK to Good piece of SCHLOCKO Movie "AUTEUR-SHIP," let us, RIGHTLY, call it such!