This film was both more somber and dark, and also left the viewer with a ""cliffhanger"" ending; however, it had a very complex and sophisticated plot involving time-travel.g., the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Moscow (the German invasion of Russia on the Eastern Front), the torpedo-sinking of Britain’s Royal Navy aircraft carrierHMS Ark Royalby a German U-boat, deportations of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, the spread of Fascism over Europe, and Lombard""s death).He stops in front of a large billboard sign to admire an advertisement for his most recent movie (The Bank Dick (1940), produced for Universal, not Esoteric).Ron suffered a severe upper left-arm wound when splinched (part of him was left behind during heir hasty retreat).