Blu-ray Release: F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 10, 2021
Price: Blu-ray $17.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

A spectacular German science fiction film in the tradition of Metropolis (1927) and Gold (1934), 1933’s  F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer dramatizes the creation of a massive floating airport serving as a way station between four continents.

Hans Albers (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes) stars as Ellissen, a dashing pilot who helps persuade an heiress (Sybille Schmitz, Vampyr) to fund the visionary project. When communication with Floating Platform 1 is mysteriously interrupted, Ellissen risks his life to investigate its disappearance.

Produced just as the Nazi government was taking control of the German film industry, F.P.1 was writer Kurt Siodmak’s last film before emigrating to England and eventually America, where (as Curt Siodmak) he would write The Ape, The Wolf Man, Donovan’s Brain, and many other classic Hollywood horrors.

Additionally, it was also the last pre-war German film of Peter Lorre (M, The Maltese Falcon), who costars as a sly photojournalist.

Kino Lorber’s special edition includes both the restored German-language version of F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer as well as the English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, featuring Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs).

Here are the additional bonus features:
-The complete English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, starring Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, and Leslie Fenton
-Audio commentary by film historian Eddie von Mueller

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.