The Philadelphia Experiment Page #2

Synopsis: In 1943, the United States tests an anti-radar system to make the U.S. Navy ships invisible to the enemy. Dr. James Longstreet uses his experiment in the destroyer escort USS Eldridge that disappears from Philadelphia. The sailors David Herdeg and his best friend Jim Parker are projected to 1984, where they meet Allison Hayes. They unsuccessfully try to contact their base and out of the blue Jimmy disappears in a hospital. Allison helps David to visit Jimmy's wife Pamela, but Jimmy refuses to see him. Now David's only hope is meeting Dr. James Longstreet to learn what to do. Will he be well succeeded?
Director(s): Stewart Raffill
Production: Starmaker Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG
Year:
1984
102 min
234 Views


- Jimmy! Are you okay?

- I'm okay! Get outta here!

Let get the hell outta here!

C'mon! Get up!

What is this? What's goin' on?

- I don't know, what do you see right now?

- The stars, the moon, it's night!

Did you see the ship? I mean did...

you see the ship, the town?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's spinnin' around!

What's goin' on here?

- What about your hand?

- It looks okay now, there's nothing wrong with it.

- What the hell is it?

- I don't know... what is that?

It's comin' back again, Davy!

Oh, my god.

C'mon!

Run!

Run! Run!

Let go, Jimmy! Let go!

We gotta get outta here!

C'mon! Run!

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm okay.

- It's the last one.

- Thanks.

- You have any more brilliant ideas?

- Yeah.

We're still in Philadelphia.

This is all part of the experiment.

They did something to our minds!

- There's no desert in Philly.

- Maybe all this isn't real.

Maybe it's a hallucination,

they could've hypnotized us.

Ya know, they do that to people, ya know?

You're tellin' me this is my imagination?

And we're not freezin' our asses off out here?

And they didn't try to kill us last night?

They wouldn't do that!

It's all part of the experiment.

You think the Navy

knows what they're doing?

You saw the guys on the boat. This wasn't

supposed to happen, Jimmy! This is a BIG mistake.

- So what do we do, huh?

- Let's keep on goin'.

- Isn't that water up ahead?

- No, this is a desert, and that's a mirage.

How much longer do you think

this mirage is gonna last?

- What is it?

- Some sorta beer.

German!

Hey!

Coca-cola!

Oh, it's so light!

What the hell's it made of?

Well, hell if I know.

- What is it?

- It's an old Chevy.

It's headin' right for us.

- C'mon!

What the hell was that?

Red Leader to Dry Wells Base,

we don't see any town site.

Dry Wells Base to Red Leader,

repeat!

It was there before the experiment,

it's got to be there now! Keep looking!

How could the damn town just disappear?

Continuing search, over.

That's Longstreet now, punch-up code 84

and run another check of the area.

We just finished our first run.

There's nothing, no anomalous electromagnetic fields.

No heat build-up, no radiation.

The whole damned town just

disappeared, James!

Run a second check.

We are already doing it, but, I mean,

how the hell could this thing have happened?

I don't want Washington involved... not yet.

I understand.

We'll be through in an hour.

All right, I want a shot here and then I want

a shot featuring that section down there.

And then I want a wide shot of the whole assembly.

What is it?

We don't know, Sir, but it wasn't here

when we started, that's for DAMN sure.

The chopper went down

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