Released Date:
1980-12-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (34416 Reviews)
Director:
Mike HodgesLorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay)
Michael Allin (adaptation)
Alex Raymond (based on the characters created by)
In this update of the 1930s comic strip, Flash Gordon is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, ruled by Emperor Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter, and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.
Released Date:
1981-05-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (6493 Reviews)
Director:
Gary ShermanJeff Millar (story)
Alex Stern (story)
Ronald Shusett (screenplay)
Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)
Sheriff Dan Gillis has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis, in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating and coming back to life. Dan finds a book of witchcraft and voodoo in his wife's drawer and he suspects that she might be practicing black magic. Dan meets the coroner-mortician William G. Dobbs and learns the dreadful and surprising secret.
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