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01/03/1938 Action, Adventure, Science Fiction 1h 22m
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BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip

Overview

A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth. Released abroad as "Flash Gordon" for countries not interested in booking the serial, and never shown in the USA before 1950, where the title was changed to "Rocket Ship".

  1. Frederick Stephani

    Director

  2. Ray Taylor

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Buster Crabbe

    Flash Gordon

  2. Jean Rogers

    Dale Arden

  3. Charles Middleton

    Emperor Ming

  4. Priscilla Lawson

    Princess Aura

  5. Frank Shannon

    Dr. Hans Zarkov

  6. Richard Alexander

    Prince Barin

  7. Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

    King Vultan

  8. Theodore Lorch

    High Priest

  9. James Pierce

    Prince Thun

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-19
I loved these sci-fi escapades years ago when I was a kid and the serials were shown at dinner-time by the BBC. I haven't seen them since, and to be honest was rather disappointed by the way in which the episodes had been rather clumsily butchered into 75 minutes. Not that there ever was much jeopardy with the plot: "Flash" (Buster Crabbe) has to defeat the devious plots of "Ming" (Charles Middleton) with the aid of his allies Barin (Richard Alexander) and "Vultan" (Tiny Lipson) whilst juggling the attentions of "Dale Arden" (Jean Rogers) and the duplicitous "Princess Aura" (Priscilla Lawson) ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$350,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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