Yep...The USS Eldridge. A World War 2 destroyer that didn't make it out of Philadelphia. Or, maybe it did...a long way out of Philadelphia. Charles Berlitz wrote a book about it called The Philadelphia Experiment. The same Charles Berlitz that wrote about The Bermuda triangle. Thanks to our buddies at the Syfy Channel, we now know what happened to the ship. We also have the magnum opus of blonde vixen Emilie Ullerup. Today we look at 2012's "The Philadelphia Experiment," directed by Paul Ziller. Oh yes...cause for rejoice...Malcolm McDowell and Michael Pare are in this, too.
The sultry Molly (Ullerup) is a waitress in a small town Pennsylvania diner. She's hot and has a cute romance going with a hunk deputy, Carl (John Reardon). Uh oh...Deputy Carl gets a weird call that something has occurred at a local airport...he responds. Lo' and behold, the USS Eldridge, missing since World War 2, is on the runway. Investigating the ship, Carl gets sucked into it. One survivor is on the ship, Lt. Bill Gardner (Nicholas Lea)...he runs off the ship. Yep...the ship then disappears but not after Molly hurries to the airport after Carl calls for help on the radio and she sees the ship go poof. Molly wants Carl back...after all, he is quite the hunk.
Seems the Eldridge disappeared when the scientists back then put a machine on board that altered time. Now the Eldridge is travelling through time. A secret government organization, in present time, has created a similar machine. Devil woman, Agent Moore (Gina Holden) is overseeing this experiment when something goes wrong...it brings The Eldridge back...now the ship is appearing and disappearing all over the globe. In a classic scene it shows up in Chicago impaling a skyscraper. Lt. Bill is actually Molly's grandfather and he shows up at her house. Now Molly and Lt. Gardner must elude Agent Moore's henchman (Michael Pare). See, Moore does not want to let word of this experiment get out and if The Eldridge keeps popping up in population centers...well, someone might blog about it. Now Molly and her grandfather are on the run from this assassin. Enter Malcolm McDowell...and he just may know how to stop all this.
In a nut shell, that is what this film is about. The effects are terrific and Molly is absolutely stunning. Will granddad Bill pull a taboo move and try to move in on Deputy Carl's territory? Will The Eldridge end up in the Black Sea into another conflict America should not be in? Will Agent Moore try to discredit Molly by labeling her a 'conspiracy theorist'? This made for Syfy gem is exciting and has a great looking cast. Beefcake and cheesecake abound...see "The Philadelphia Experiment."
Interesting that Michael Pare is in this (singer Eddie from Eddie and the Cruisers). I believe he was in both the original Philadelphia Experiment movie and sequel as main characters. This one came out after those.
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