In this threadbare budgeted sci-fi former cowboy serial star Tim Holt and a cast of one and done performers wade through this story about a scientist, hiding out in Dallas, bent on returning the Reich to its former glory. A pure schlock cash grab sloppy production it is not without its charm with a gangbuster opening of a baton twirler performing to pop music with a disabled car in the background a nice surreal energized touch. From there the film begins to lose its burst and slip into mediocrity and stilted performance before the electrifying appearance of Jack Herman as an enthusiastic mad scientist Ernest Von Hauser. Far from the traitor to the "cause" that Werner Von Braun is, Ernie is hard at work with weaponry and a way back machine in the passionate hope of restoring his former bosses to power. Herman's over the top performance is so wonderfully strident it threatens to steal the picture but save for the baton twirling demonstration and ditzy remonstration of the daffy doc there is nothing to steal, the picture is worthless.
Review of The Yesterday Machine
