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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) [PG]

Release Date:
August 3, 1984

Original Title:
The Philadelphia Experiment

Alternate Titles:
4차원의 포로
Eksperyment filadelfijski
El experimento Philadelphia
John Carpenter's The Philadelphia Experiment
Philadelphia eksperimentet
Tuhonkuilu
Um Passo para o Futuro
Φιλαδέλφεια Ώρα Μηδέν

Genres:
Adventure | Science Fiction | Thriller

Production Companies:
Cinema Group Ventures
New Pictures Group
New World Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  DE: 12  FR: U  GB: PG  IE: PG  US: PG 

Runtime: 102

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

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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.

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Production

ADR & Dubbing:
Barbara J. Boguski
Devon Heffley Curry

Art Direction:
Chris Campbell

Assistant Camera:
Gary Louzon

Assistant Editor:
Terry Kelley

Best Boy Electric:
Ben Hausing
Wayne Stroud
Robert McClure

Best Boy Grip:
Philip Sloan
Jeff 'Moose' Howery

Boom Operator:
James T. Burns

Camera Operator:
Robert Hayes

Carpenter:
Robert Marcus

Casting:
Linda Francis
Cate Praggastis

Casting Assistant:
Jeff Greenberg

Color Timer:
Art Tostado

Construction Coordinator:
Bill Cornford

Costume Design:
Joanna Palace

Craft Service:
Rudy Daniels

Dialogue Editor:
Steve Rice

Director:
Stewart Raffill

Director of Photography:
Dick Bush

Editor:
Neil Travis
William Hoy

Electrician:
Michael Bolner
Garfield Burke
Vincent Contarino
Paul Hauser
Ron Sky
Michael LaViolette
Nick Cline
Alan Brownstein
Bobby Huber
Bryan Clifton

Executive Producer:
John Carpenter

Extras Casting Assistant:
Gary Towles

First Assistant Camera:
Paul Elliott

First Assistant Director:
Jeffrey Chernov
Pat Kehoe

Foley Artist:
Duane Hensel
John Post

Gaffer:
Roger Olkowski

Generator Operator:
Victor Kloster

Genetator Operator:
Victor Kloster

Grip:
Dylan Shephard
Michael Stocks
David Michels
Edward 'Tantar' LeViseur
Scott Prescott
Norman Fightmaster

Hairstylist:
Joe Giannone

Key Grip:
Ron McCausland

Lead Set Dresser:
Brit Babcock
Eric Handel

Location Manager:
Reggie Jackson
Joseph A. Liuzzi
Joseph Raffill
Steve Rhea

Makeup Artist:
Annie Maniscalco

Music Editor:
John R. Harris

Novel:
Charles Berlitz
William L. Moore

Original Music Composer:
Kenneth Wannberg

Pilot:
Lawrence Doll
John D. Sarviss

Producer:
Douglas Curtis
Joel B. Michaels

Production Assistant:
Jamie Arbuckle
Bob Blongiewicz
Brent Bowman
Eric Johnson
Phil Strauss
Randy Stricklin
Catherine Davis
Randall L. Crocker
Gerald North

Production Coordinator:
Coni Lancaster

Production Manager:
Billy Ray Smith

Production Secretary:
Teresa Thomas
Susan Sinclair
Tonya Neff

Property Master:
Lee Berglund

Screenplay:
William Gray
Michael Janover

Second Assistant Camera:
Steven Finestone

Second Assistant Director:
Gail Joyce Fortmuller

Set Decoration:
Diane Campbell

Sound Designer:
David Lewis Yewdall

Sound Effects:
Dick Le Grand
Charles Ewing Smith

Sound Mixer:
Robert Gravenor

Special Effects:
Max W. Anderson

Special Effects Coordinator:
Lawrence J. Cavanaugh

Still Photographer:
M. J. Elliott
Michael Paris

Story:
Wallace C. Bennett
Don Jakoby

Stunt Coordinator:
Fernando Celis

Stunt Double:
Jon H. Epstein

Stunts:
Monty Cox
Glory Fioramonti
Sherry Peterson

Supervising Sound Editor:
John K. Adams

Title Designer:
Douy Swofford

Unit Publicist:
Al Ebner

Wardrobe Assistant:
Steve Lepre
Marydith Chase

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