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Overview
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Writers:
George H. Plympton (screenplay) &
Basil Dickey (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
3 March 1940 (USA) more
Tagline:
From the ALEX RAYMOND newspaper feature owned and copyrighted by King Features Syndicate (all of the original posters and cards) more
Plot:
Flash and his friends return to planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death. But Ming the Merciless has other plans for them... full summary | add synopsis
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A fun serial more (11 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Buster Crabbe | ... | Flash Gordon (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe) |
| Carol Hughes | ... | Dale Arden |
| Charles Middleton | ... | Emperor Ming |
| Anne Gwynne | ... | Sonja [Chs. 2, 6-12] |
| Frank Shannon | ... | Dr. Zarkov |
| John Hamilton | ... | Prof. Gordon [Chs. 1, 4] |
| Herbert Rawlinson | ... | Dr. Frohmann [Chs. 1, 4] |
| Tom Chatterton | ... | Prof. Arden [Chs. 1, 4] |
| Shirley Deane | ... | Princess Aura |
| Lee Powell | ... | Capt. Roka |
| Roland Drew | ... | Prince Barin |
| Don Rowan | ... | Capt. Torch |
| Victor Zimmerman | ... | Lt. Thong |
| Edgar Edwards | ... | Capt. Turan |
| Ben Taggart | ... | Gen. Lupi [Chs. 1-2] |
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Also Known As:
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe (USA) (TV title)
Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe (USA) (TV title)
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Runtime:
(12 episodes) | Brazil:220 min | UK:195 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #5874) | UK:U | Australia:G | Australia:PG (2008)
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This serial was based on a Flash Gordon comic strip continuity involving Prince Barin and his Tree People, of "Frigia". more
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Referenced in Watching the Detectives (2007) more
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It's better than a lot of the dreck produced today. It is best not to watch it all at once, but watch one episode a day. When I consider how low the budget was, and how long ago this was made, it adds to the appreciation of this.
For example, making a cliff face look like a plausible ice wall by opening the iris wide to let in more light. It's full of cliches - sort of. But remember, they weren't cliche at the time.
It is interesting that Ming seems rather reasonable in this - not the over-the-top monster we have come to know and loath - and love!