The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) [PG]

Release Date:
October 5, 1984

Original Title:
The Philadelphia Experiment

Alternate Titles:
4차원의 포로
Eksperyment filadelfijski
El experimento Philadelphia
Experiment Philadelphia
John Carpenter's The Philadelphia Experiment
L'expérience de Philadelphie
Philadelphia Experiment
Philadelphia eksperimentet
The Pennsylvania Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment
Tuhonkuilu
Um Passo para o Futuro
Το Πείραμα της Φιλαδέλφειας
Φιλαδέλφεια Ώρα Μηδέν
费城历险

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  SE: 15  US: PG 

Runtime: 102

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

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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ADR & Dubbing:
Devon Heffley Curry
Barbara J. Boguski

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

Executive Producer:
John Carpenter

Extras Casting Assistant:
Gary Towles

First Assistant Camera:
Paul Elliott

First Assistant Director:
Pat Kehoe
Jeffrey Chernov

Foley Artist:
John Post
Duane Hensel

Gaffer:
Roger Olkowski

Generator Operator:
Victor Kloster

Genetator Operator:
Victor Kloster

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

Hairstylist:
Joe Giannone

Key Grip:
Ron McCausland

Lead Set Dresser:
Eric Handel
Brit Babcock

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

Makeup Artist:
Annie Maniscalco

Music Editor:
John R. Harris

Novel:
William L. Moore
Charles Berlitz

Original Music Composer:
Kenneth Wannberg

Pilot:
John D. Sarviss
Lawrence Doll

Producer:
Joel B. Michaels
Douglas Curtis

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

Production Coordinator:
Coni Lancaster

Production Manager:
Billy Ray Smith

Production Secretary:
Teresa Thomas
Tonya Neff
Susan Sinclair

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:
Charles Ewing Smith
Dick Le Grand

Sound Mixer:
Robert Gravenor

Special Effects:
Max W. Anderson

Special Effects Coordinator:
Lawrence J. Cavanaugh

Still Photographer:
Michael Paris
M. J. Elliott

Story:
Don Jakoby
Wallace C. Bennett

Stunt Coordinator:
Fernando Celis

Stunt Double:
Jon H. Epstein

Stunts:
Sherry Peterson
Monty Cox
Glory Fioramonti

Supervising Sound Editor:
John K. Adams

Title Designer:
Douy Swofford

Unit Publicist:
Al Ebner

Wardrobe Assistant:
Steve Lepre
Marydith Chase

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