Overview:
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.| Status: | Released (1980-09-01) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 3 BAFTA 2 wins & 14 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $27,107,960 |
| Screen: | Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Alex Raymond |
| Productions: | Starling Films, Universal Pictures, Famous Films Productions, Flash Gordon Productions, DDL Cinematografica |
| Production Countries: | Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 33321: Sam J. Jones - Flash Gordon
- 33322: Melody Anderson - Dale Arden
- 2201: Max von Sydow - The Emperor Ming
- 10501: Topol - Dr. Hans Zarkov
- 27163: Ornella Muti - Princess Aura
- 10669: Timothy Dalton - Prince Barin
- 8318: Brian Blessed - Prince Vultan
Crews
- 17281: Mike Hodges - Director - Directing
- 33313: Alex Raymond - Characters - Writing
- 33314: Michael Allin - Adaptation - Writing
- 10931: Lorenzo Semple Jr. - Screenplay - Writing
- 33319: Howard Blake - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 7753: Gilbert Taylor - Director of Photography - Camera
- 31931: Malcolm Cooke - Editor - Editing
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One of the least appreciated movies made in my lifetime. Done right after the glory that was The Empire Strikes Back and released to a public that had forgotten who Flash Gordon was or what the 1930's serials with Larry "Buster" Crabbe represented. Although the public was drooling de ....
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Campy and fun science fiction fantasy-adventure flick has some cheesy but colorful and good production designs and the performances for the most part were fine, with Max Von Sydow lending prestige to a goofy character and Sam J. Jones was okay in the lead, but he's really not asked t ....
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Now then, anyone who thinks that Max von Sydov's best film was "the Seventh Seal" (1957) really does need to get their priorities right: forget Ingmar Bergman - it has to be this marvellously camp effort from Mike Hodges and Dino de Laurentiis that allows him to act the megalomanic w ....
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