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The Philadelphia Experiment

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The Philadelphia Experiment

The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on.

6.1(454) 10/5/1984 1h 42m
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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.

Part of the The Philadelphia Experiment Collection
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Michael Paré

Michael Paré

David Herdeg

Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen

Allison Hayes

Eric Christmas

Eric Christmas

Dr. James Longstreet

Bobby Di Cicco

Bobby Di Cicco

Jim Parker

Louise Latham

Louise Latham

Pamela

Kene Holliday

Kene Holliday

Major Clark

JD

Joe Dorsey

Sheriff Bates

Michael Currie

Michael Currie

Magnussen

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Stewart Raffill

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CinemaSerf

6/10

3/13/2025

Sadly, this has dated really quite badly but it’s still quite a decent story. With the US Navy working in the middle of WWII to find a way to make allied shipping invisible to their Nazi enemy, they think they might have found a gadget to do just that. Off goes the USS “Eldridge” but before the exercise can be completed, two of it’s crew disappear and find themselves transported forty years into the future. Meantime, “Longstreet” (Eric Christmas) - the very scientist who devised the technology in the first place, is looking to try to retrieve the men. Meantime, lost souls “David” (Michael Paré) and “Jimmy” (Bobby Di Cicco) are having a few problems of their own in 1984 as the latter man has a bit of an incident at hospital and they realise that they are going to need to contact the scienti

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