Rocket Ship
BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip
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- Action
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
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".
Keywords
- space travel
- space war
- space opera
- emperor
- heroic mission
- evil dictator
- end of world
- evil alien
- flash gordon
- feature version of movie serial
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 1, 1938
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,FilmCraft Productions
- Cast
- Jean Rogers,Jack 'Tiny' Lipson,George Cleveland,Priscilla Lawson,Charles Middleton,Richard Tucker,Richard Alexander,Earl Askam,Theodore Lorch,James Pierceand 2 more
- Director
- Frederick Stephani,Ray Taylor
- Writer
- Norman S. Hall,Wyndham Gittens,Ray Trampe,George H. Plympton,Frederick Stephani,Basil Dickey,Alex Raymond,Ella O'Neill
- Producer
- Henry MacRae
- Budget
- $350,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0027624