“Es ist eine schwimmende Plattform!” Here’s something for committed Sci-fi followers, a lavish German production with big drama, big emotions, and impressive, ambitious special effects. Hans Albers makes sure his pal Paul Hartmann’s artificial mid-Atlantic airport becomes reality, only to lose his new girlfriend Sybille Schmitz to him. The Murnau Foundation’s superb restoration makes the giant Flugplatform seem real. UfA produced the show in three languages with three different casts; Kino’s handsome disc gives us excellent renderings of two of them. Plus glorious German songs about the joy of flying!
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1932 / B&w / 1:19 Ar / 112 min. / Street Date August 10, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre, Georg John, Hermann Speelmans, Erik Ode, Werner Schott.
Cinematography: Otto Baecker, Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Günther Rittau
Production Designer: Erich Kettlehut
Film Editor: Willy Zeyn
Special Effects: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet,...
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1932 / B&w / 1:19 Ar / 112 min. / Street Date August 10, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre, Georg John, Hermann Speelmans, Erik Ode, Werner Schott.
Cinematography: Otto Baecker, Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Günther Rittau
Production Designer: Erich Kettlehut
Film Editor: Willy Zeyn
Special Effects: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet,...
- 8/7/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The name talent attached makes this late- Weimar thriller a must-see proposition: Billy Wilder, Robert & Curt Siodmak, Franz Waxman. Their dark murder farce resembles what would later become the self-aware Black Comedy. The trouble begins when a suicidal nice guy can’t pull the trigger, and hires a crook to do the job for him. The satire is clever but the execution is awkward — the filmmakers set up big laughs that the heavy German filming style doesn’t deliver. Just the same, the situations seem extremely progressive, ahead of their time.
The Man in Search of his Murderer
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Kino Classics Kino Repertory
1931 / B&w / 1:33 flat / 97 min. / Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht; Jim, der Mann mit der Narbe, Looking for his Murderer / Street Date April 6, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt, Hermann Speelmans, Friedrich Hollaender, Gerhard Bienert, Roland Varno.
The Man in Search of his Murderer
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Kino Classics Kino Repertory
1931 / B&w / 1:33 flat / 97 min. / Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht; Jim, der Mann mit der Narbe, Looking for his Murderer / Street Date April 6, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt, Hermann Speelmans, Friedrich Hollaender, Gerhard Bienert, Roland Varno.
- 4/13/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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