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The Philadelphia Experiment

Stewart Raffill · 102 minutes

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.

Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The sailors' displacement between 1943 and 1984 and the experiment's consequences drive the story.

A naval experiment displaces sailors from 1943 to 1984.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan64.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.1/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 90.35 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Louise Latham

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Releases & formats

6 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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