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The Yesterday Machine (1963)

The Yesterday Machine poster
Directed by
Russ Marker
Genre
science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mad Nazi physicist uses a time machine to try to bring Adolf Hitler into the present day. A newspaper reporter, a nightclub singer, and her sister get caught up in stopping this plot.

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What happens

The Yesterday Machine is a regional American science fiction film written, produced, and directed by Russ Marker. It stars Tim Holt, James Britton, Ann Pellegrino, and Jack Herman. Various sources give the film's release date as 1963, 1965, and 1966. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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