Flash Gordon
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
From the archive
The complete 1936 serial Flash Gordon. All 13 episodes that were originally shown in theaters one per week. The movie studios were really churning out movies during the 30's and a new one showed up every week. Serials were a way of enticing people back to the theater week after week. You'll notice the cliff hangers at the end of each episode. It would always look like a disaster and then the next week, you'd see the character rescued. Buster Crabbe stars as Flash, Jean Rogers is the kidnap-prone Dale Arden and Priscilla Lawson is the space princess who falls for Flash Flash Gordon started as a comic strip in 1934 and became popular enough to spawn 3 serials. In 1966 this one was edited into Spaceship to the Unknown. In 1974 it was parodied in Flesh Gordon. Dale Arden's costumes were not changed much from the original serial. 1980 would see the release of director Mike Hodges take on the character. Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton and Ornella Muti would act in the movie while Brian Blessed gnawed his way through the furniture. I removed the non-English audio and subtitles and tried to balance out the sound volume but the second half is quieter than the first.
Why this is free to watch
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- Director
- Ray Taylor
- Starring
- Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson, Richard Alexander, Jack 'Tiny' Lipson, James Pierce
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