Flesh Gordon (1974)

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football ... See full summary »

Directors:

Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm

Writer:

Michael Benveniste (screenplay)

Stars:

Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Williams	...	Flesh Gordon
Suzanne Fields	...	Dale Ardor
Joseph Hudgins	...	Dr. Flexi Jerkoff
William Dennis Hunt	...	Emperor Wang the Perverted (as William Hunt)
Candy Samples	...	Chief Nellie (as Mary Gavin)
Mycle Brandy
Steve Grumette	...	(as Steve Grummette)
Nora Wieternik	...	Queen Amora
Lance Larsen	...	Prince Precious
Hillary Summers	...	(as Judy Ziehm)
Leonard Goodman
Donald Lee Harris	...	(as Don Harris)
Howard Alexander	...	Airplane Passenger
Jack Rowe
Alan Sinclair

Storyline

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardent and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!

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Plot Keywords:

sex | ray | parody | nudity | planet | 

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Taglines:

...Planet Porno Bombards Earth with Sex Rays! ...Send For Flesh!...

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Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

X

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 July 1974 (USA)

Also Known As:

Flesh Gordon, praktor '069' enantion tou planiti 'Porno'!

Box Office

Budget:

$700,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Graffiti Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min 90 min (collector's edition) 72 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A number of up-and-coming special effects artists worked on the film, including Rick Baker, Jim Danforth, Dave Allen, and Dennis Muren. The effects ended up being so good that the film was actually in line for an Oscar nomination for visual effects; however, the Academy chose not to give an award in that category that year because so few films had featured visual effects.

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Goofs

In one of the first scenes, a character clearly says, "Dr. Gordon, all of us here are aware of the total degragation that has overcome the masses." Obviously, he was meant to say "degradation."

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Quotes

Emperor Wang the Perverted: Out of my way, dildo!

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Connections

Followed by Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1990)

User Reviews

Sex, camp and good fun!

This is truly a camp classic, ripe for discovery by those who love and cherish hysterical over-acting, horrid sex-jokes and flagrant innuendo.

The plot is, well,....quite basic: Sex-rays from the planet Porno (presumably somewhere near the Porn-star..) hits Earth and threatens to destroy the morals of mankind. Flesh Gordon, after almost succumbing to those very same rays teams up with the lightly clad Dale Ardor and dr. Flexi Jerkoff. Together they fly off to Porno in a penile spaceship to destroy the evil Wang and his sex-ray machine. OK? Here they meet Penisauruses, the gay (in every sense) men of Sherwood forest, a surly monster (close cousin to King Kong) and an army of perverts, cavorting on the floors of Wang's palace. Wang himself seems somewhat miffed when Flesh complains about the sex-rays destroying morality :"Why, you should THANK me!" The pantomime plot has side-splitting moments and good fun, but at the end of the day it all bubbles down to one word: Sex. This is, effectively, a porn movie, with most of the porn removed (at least in this version), and a mixture of ludicrously funny sight gags and some elaborate special effects thrown into the mix.

I enjoyed "Flesh Gordon", because it never stops moving and is always funny. In fact, it's a real treat, and the intended satire on the mores of American science-fiction is spot-on. (including the priceless sight-gag of Dr.Jerkoff starting his rocket-engine with a car-ignition key!) There is also a shot of a stranded spaceship which looks ominously like that one at the start of ALIEN. In fact, it looks like H.R.Giger must have been HEAVILY influenced by it! See this movie!