Rocket Ship
BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip
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.
- 4.8
- 1938
- Released
- 1h 22m
Buster Crabbe
Flash Gordon
Jean Rogers
Dale Arden
Charles Middleton
Emperor Ming
Priscilla Lawson
Princess Aura
Frank Shannon
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Richard Alexander
Prince Barin
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
King Vultan
Theodore Lorch
High Priest
James Pierce
Prince Thun
Earl Askam
Officer Torch
Richard Tucker
Professor Gordon
George Cleveland
Professor HensonReleased
en
$350,000.00
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Reviews
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 Middlet