Released Date:
1936-04-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
245 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1507 Reviews)
Alex Raymond (based on the comic strip by)
Ella O'Neill (screenplay)
Frederick Stephani (screenplay)
George H. Plympton (screenplay)
Basil Dickey (screenplay)
A rogue planet is 'rushing madly toward the earth.' Impending doom creates worldwide pandemonium. But maverick scientist Dr. Zarkov hopes to stay disaster by travelling to the new planet in his experimental rocket. Two chance-met strangers, athletic Flash Gordon and damsel in distress Dale Arden, go with him. Arrived, the trio find Mongo to be a planet of wonders, warring factions, and deadly perils, its orbit controlled by Emperor Ming who has his own sinister plans for earth. Can our heroes, armed only with science and sex appeal, stop him?
Released Date:
1937-12-17
Languages:
English, Cantonese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
62 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (140 Reviews)
Director:
Robert FloreyGladys Unger (screenplay)
Garnett Weston (screenplay)
Garnett Weston (based on a story by)
In an unidentified airplane flying over the ocean in which six aliens are huddled, alien-smugglers Frank Barden and Andrew Sleete are trying to evade a government pursuit plane. They dump the screaming "evidence" into the sea. Escaping pursuit, they later approach wealthy merchant Quan Lin and demand he take some aliens off of their hands. They kill him when he refuses. Lan Ying Lin, his daughter, goes to wealthy society matron Mrs. Mary Hunt for help. She introduces her to an inspector and Kim Lee, a government agent. Unknown to all, Mrs. Hunt is the power behind the smuggling ring. Turning detective to catch her father's killers, Lan Ying Lin finds herself on a remote island where she takes a job as a dancer in a honky-tonk operated by Otto Hartman, and discovers the island resort is a blind for an alien receiving station. She gets the evidence on Hartman and flees the island with agent Lee, disguised as a man, in the hold of the smuggling vessel. They are discovered by the ship's captain who radios for a sea plane. They are loaded into the plane, piloted by Barden and Sleete, and are being flown out to sea to be disposed of.
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