The Yesterday Machine

The Yesterday Machine is a 1963 American science fiction film written, directed and produced by Russ Marker and starring Tim Holt, James Britton, Jack Herman, Ann Pellegrino and Robert Bob Kelly.[1]

The Yesterday Machine
Promotional poster
Directed byRuss Marker
Produced byRuss Marker
Screenplay byRuss Marker
StarringTim Holt
James Britton
Jack Herman
Ann Pellegrino
Robert Bob Kelly
Music byDon Zimmers
CinematographyRalph K. Johnson
Production
company
Carter Film Productions
Release date
1963
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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!"[2]

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See also

References
  1. The Yesterday Machine on IMDb.
  2. Gaita, Paul. Allmovie by Rovi, film review. Accessed: August 8, 2013.
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