The Philadelphia experiment [videorecording] / New World Pictures & Cinema Group present a John Carpenter Production ; produced by Joel B. Michaels & Douglas Curtis ; directed by Stewart Raffill ; story by Wallace Bennett & Don Jakoby ; screenplay by William Gray and Michael Janover.
Title and date from container. Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby DiCicco. Widescreen presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs. Includes theatrical trailer. Videodisc release of the 1984 motion picture. Program notes by Michael Felsher.
Summary:
"Philadelphia 1943: a top-secret experiment is underway to make US Navy ships invisible to enemy radar, but something goes horribly wrong, and the Battleship Eldridge disappears. Two sailors jump overboard and are mysteriously transported 41 years into the future. On the run and trapped by the past, can they stop the experiment that has torn a hole in time?"
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