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The Philadelphia Experiment
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
1984 · Directed by Stewart Raffill · 102 min · Science Fiction · Adventure · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on.
Crew
- Screenplay: Michael Janover, William Gray
- Cinematography: Dick Bush
- Edited by: Neil Travis, William Hoy
- Music: Kenneth Wannberg
- Produced by: Joel B. Michaels, Douglas Curtis
Cast
- Michael Paré as David Herdeg
- Nancy Allen as Allison Hayes
- Eric Christmas as Dr. James Longstreet
- Bobby Di Cicco as Jim Parker
- Louise Latham as Pamela
- Kene Holliday as Major Clark
- Joe Dorsey as Sheriff Bates
- Michael Currie as Magnussen
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Barney
- Gary Brockette as Adjutant / Andrews
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Pictures Group, New World Pictures, Cinema Group Ventures
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $8,103,330
- Themes: experiment, based on novel or book, aftermath, intelligence, time travel, biography, based on true story, urban legend, falling in love, uss eldridge
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