Flesh Gordon (1974)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Directors:

Michael Benveniste
Howard Ziehm

Writer:

Michael Benveniste (screenplay)

Release Date:

30 July 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Not to be confused with the original "Flash Gordon"

Plot:

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth...

Plot Keywords:

Ray | Sex | Football Player | Planet | Nudity

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

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 (also as Mary Gavin)
Mycle Brandy	...	Amora, Queen of Magic
John Hoyt	...	Prof. Gordon
Steve Grumette		(as Steve Grummette)
Nora Wieternik
Lance Larsen	...	Prince Precious
Hillary Summers		(as Judy Ziehm)
Leonard Goodman
Donald Lee Harris
Howard Alexander
Jack Rowe

Runtime:

78 min | USA:90 min (collector's edition) | 72 min (cut version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | West Germany:18 | Australia:R | Austria:18 | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | France:-16 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:16 (cut) | UK:18 | USA:R (edited for re-rating) (1975) | USA:X (original rating) | Netherlands:18

Company:

Graffiti Productions

Trivia:

Hardcore sequences were seized by police in a raid. The director was forced to view the film in the judge's chambers and all hardcore material was removed.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): 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."

Quotes:

Prince Precious: I'm Prince Precious, rightful heir to the throne of Porno. Years ago, this planet was a veritable paradise. But Wang, a maniacal botanist whose organ was devoured by a crazed Penis Flytrap, could not tolerate the existence of so much pleasure, and so, banding together an army of the impotent and frustrated, and armed with a small but effective sex ray, plunged my palace into carnal chaos, and took it over.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)

Superb

The beauty of Flesh Gordon is that it has no pretensions to seriousness. Much soft porn of the 70's was so mind-bogglingly asinine that lots of us nearly gave up sex. Flesh is so totally different, being funny, that it remains in my memory from the time I saw it in the Mid-70's. I still remember Dr Jerkoff unveiling his spaceship shaped like a giant erect phallus with the words "Fortunately I was able to complete the design before the Sex-ray took effect".

The word 'Penisaurus' has passed into the vocabulary of Britain now, as an insult, obviously. The rapist robots with their little spring willys still linger in my memory.

If I had seen it alone I would probably have walked out, but as a teenage miscreant with a friend it was hysterical. If you are not offended by the sight of breasts and enjoy a laugh watch it with some friends and a beer or two. Excellent fun.