Rocket Ship

Rocket Ship

Rocket Ship

5.4/ 10

TMDB Rating

4

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1938

Release Year

82 min

Runtime

Action

Adventure

Science Fiction

Overview

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. Released abroad as "Flash Gordon" for countries not interested in booking the serial, and never shown in the USA before 1950, where the title was changed to "Rocket Ship".

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Keywords

emperor

space travel

space war

end of world

space opera

heroic mission

evil alien

evil dictator

feature version of movie serial

Cast

Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe

Flash Gordon

Jean Rogers

Jean Rogers

Dale Arden

Charles Middleton

Charles Middleton

Emperor Ming

Priscilla Lawson

Priscilla Lawson

Princess Aura

Frank Shannon

Frank Shannon

Dr. Hans Zarkov

Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander

Prince Barin

Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

King Vultan

Theodore Lorch

Theodore Lorch

High Priest

James Pierce

James Pierce

Prince Thun

Earl Askam

Officer Torch

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6.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 19, 2022

6

6/10

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 jeopar…

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