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".| Status: | Released (1938-03-01) |
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| Screen: | Alex Raymond, Ella O'Neill, Basil Dickey |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 33359: Buster Crabbe - Flash Gordon
- 33360: Jean Rogers - Dale Arden
- 30017: Charles Middleton - Emperor Ming
- 33361: Priscilla Lawson - Princess Aura
- 33362: Frank Shannon - Dr. Hans Zarkov
- 30197: Richard Alexander - Prince Barin
- 33382: Jack 'Tiny' Lipson - King Vultan
Crews
- 33313: Alex Raymond - Characters - Writing
- 33364: Frederick Stephani - Director - Directing
- 33377: Ray Taylor - Director - Directing
- 928437: Ray Trampe - Original Story - Writing
- 928437: Ray Trampe - Screenplay - Writing
- 32179: Norman S. Hall - Original Story - Writing
- 32179: Norman S. Hall - Screenplay - Writing
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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 ....
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