Rocket Ship (1938)
BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip
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".
- Date of release
- 1938-03-01
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Director
- Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Casting
- 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
- Earl Askam — Officer Torch
- Richard Tucker — Professor Gordon
- George Cleveland — Professor Henson
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