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Released
2012 · FILM

The Philadelphia Experiment

Past and present collide

Directed by
Runtime
85 min
AdventureScience FictionThrillerMystery

Synopsis

A secret government research project attempts to revive the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," an effort to develop a cloaking device capable of making warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it causes the original ship, the USS Eldridge, to reappear in the 21st century—just as it had vanished during the first test in 1943. Its return leads to death and destruction. The sole survivor of the original experiment and his granddaughter take on the task of stopping it.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christopher A SmithShot by Michael C BlundellScored by Michael NeilsonDesigned by Bob Bottieri

Also known as

  • Das Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivatedde
  • Le Projet Philadelphia, l'expérience interditefr

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