Rocket Ship

Name: Rocket Ship
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Released: 1938-03-01
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 6.3

★ 6,3 /10 (5 Votes)

1938 EN 82 min

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".

Release date

01/03/1938

Votes

Popularity

0.4

BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip

Genres

Action Adventure Science Fiction

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

82 min

Budget

$350,000

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Buster Crabbe

Flash Gordon

Jean Rogers

Dale Arden

Charles Middleton

Emperor Ming

Priscilla Lawson

Princess Aura

Frank Shannon

Dr. Hans Zarkov

Richard Alexander

Prince Barin

Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

King Vultan

Theodore Lorch

High Priest

James Pierce

Prince Thun

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Earl Askam

Officer Torch

Richard Tucker

Professor Gordon

George Cleveland

Professor Henson

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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 jeopardy with the plot: "Flash" (Buster Crabbe) has to defeat the devious plots of "Ming" (Charles Middleton) with the aid of his allies Barin (Richard Alexander) and "Vultan" (Tiny Lipson) whilst juggling the attentions of "Dale Arden" (Jean Rogers) and the duplicitous "Princess Aura" (Priscilla Lawson) …

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